What are the poetic devices used in the poem Twenty-sixth January?
What are the poetic devices used in the poem Twenty-sixth January?
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Rhetorical question is a literary device in which the author asks questions to the readers. These questions need not be answered but it is aimed to create the idea or concept behind the poem.
The poet has used this device in the following lines.
What happened to all those beautiful dreams we had dreamt?
When wealth increased why did poverty also increase in the country?
What happened to the means of increasing the prosperity of the people?
Through these lines, the poet is questioning the governing people and the public.
Metaphor is a literary device where two unrelated objects are compared to each other.
The poet has used this device in the following line.
Those who walked beside us on the street of the gallows
What happened to those friends and comrades and fellow travellers?
Here “streets of the gallows” refers to people who protested for freedom at the street, thus it led to gallows.
Alliteration is a literary device in which certain sounds are repeated at the beginning of words in a sentence or phrase.
The poet has used this device in the following lines.
What happened to those rare and precious prescriptions?
Every street is a field of flames, every city a slaughterhouse
Twenty-sixth January Summary