What are the poetic devices used in the poem What Work is?
What are the poetic devices used in the poem What Work is?
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Simile is a literary device that compares two unlikely things using the words “like” or “as”.
This poetic device can be found in the following lines.
Feeling the light rain falling like mist
Repetition is a literary device where a certain word or phrase is repeated multiple times to emphasise the word or to create a rhythm.
This literary device can be found in the following lines.
You know what work is—if you’re
old enough to read this you know what
work is, although you may not do it.
just because you don’t know what work is.(Line 42)
The poem starts and ends with the title “what work is”
A rhetorical question is asked in a piece of work to not answer but to provide effect. It is used to emphasise the point or to make the audience think.
The poet has used this device in the following lines.
How long has it been since you told him
you loved him, held his wide shoulders,
opened your eyes wide and said those words,
and maybe kissed his cheek?
Here, the speaker of the poem is asking himself.
Allusion is an indirect reference to a person, event or text or to a part of another text.
This device can be found in the following lines.
Here, the poet has mentioned about a German composer named “Wilhelm Richard Wagner” who is known for his operas.
Works eight hours a night so he can sing
Wagner, the opera you hate most,
the worst music ever invented.
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