What are the Poetic devices used in the poem Personal Helicon?

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Radhika · Accepted Answer · 2023-07-24T21:31:09+05:30

Metaphor: Heaney compares himself to the plants that grow on the wells, this is a metaphor he uses in the very first stanza of the poem.
Juxtaposition: Heaney constantly uses heavy imagery throughout the poem and places contrasting images and ideas next to each other. One example would be when he loves the company of nature and yet he is scared of it.
Enjambment: In stanza one, lines 3-4 are examples of Enjambment in this poem.
Allusion: Heaney briefly alludes to Greek Mythology first through the title, where he uses “Personal Helicon” to foreshadow the poem’s content being about his poetic inspiration. He again alludes to Greek Mythology when he mentions Narcissus, the Greek Legend who spent the rest of his life looking at his own reflection.
Asyndeton: First line of Stanza Five shows use of this poetic device in the poem.
Alliteration: Repetition of same consonant sounds in the same verse, in this poem, in stanza one line 3 repeats the same consonant sound of /d/ twice in “dark drop”.

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