What are the poetic devices used in the poem Father to Son?

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Poonam Sharma · Answer 1 · 2021-02-13T14:37:46+05:30

Following literary devices/figures of speech have been used in the poem Father to Son:

Metaphor: It is a poetic device used to make a comparison between two things that aren’t alike but do have something in common. e.g. “The seed I spent or sown it where The land is his and none of mine?’. Here seed and land refers to the father’s efforts in growing up his son.
Simile: It is the a device used to make comparison using “as” or “like”. e.g. “we speak like strangers”.
Alliteration: It is the occurrence of the same sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. e.g. “The seed I spent or sown it where”, “we speak like strangers”, “Silence surrounds us.”, “father’s house, the home he knew”, “anger grows from grief”.

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