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What are the poetic devices used in the poem Two Views of a Cadaver Room?

What are the poetic devices used in the poem Two Views of a Cadaver Room?
American PoetrySylvia PlathTwo Views of a Cadaver Room

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    2. Radhika
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      This poem has a myriad of poetic devices, some of which are as follows:

      1. Simile: A couple of examples would be “black as burnt turkey” and “He hands her the cut-out heart like a cracked heirloom”.

      1. Alliteration: One such example would be “smoke and slaughter”.

      1. Intertextuality: The poem refers to the painting “Triumph of Death” of the Flemish Renaissance with the line “In Brueghel’s panorama of smoke and slaughter”.

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