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What are the poetic devices used in “The Voice of the Rain” by Walt Whitman?

What are the poetic devices used in “The Voice of the Rain” by Walt Whitman?
CBSE 11thThe Voice of the RainWalt Whitman

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    2. Poonam Sharma
      Best Answer
      literarian

      Following are the main literary/poetic devices used in the poem “The Voice of the Rain” by Walt Whitman.

      1. Personification :- Rain is personified in the whole poem. The rain talks to the poet like a human. Here are some dialogues by the rain – “I am the Poem of Earth”, “I descend to lave the drouths, atomies, dust-layers of the globe”, “I give back life to my own origin, and make pure and beautify it;” etc.
      2. Metaphor – The poet uses a lot of metaphors in the poem e.g. “I am the Poem of Earth”, “the voice of the rain” etc.
      3. Alliteration – “(s)aid I to the (s)oft-falling (s)hower”, “(w)hence, (v)aguely form’d” etc.

      Read summary of this poem.

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    3. Pawan Kumar

      hyperbole – bottomless sea

      metaphor – I am the poem of the earth.

      Personification – I am the prem of the earth.

      Imaginary – soft-falling shower.

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    4. Afza S
      This answer was edited.
      1. Personification – Giving human qualities. Eg: “I am the Poem of the Earth” , “I descend to lave the droughts” , “I give back life to my own origin”.
      2. Imagery – Phrase that creates image in the readers mind. Eg: “soft-falling shower”.
      3. Metaphor – Comparison b/w two objects without using like or as. Eg: “I am the poem of the Earth”.
      4. Hyperbole – Exaggeration ofaomething to give great effect. Eg: Bottomless sea.
      5. Antithesis – Opposites on same line. Eg: “day and night”,”Reck’d or unreck’d”.
      6. Alliteration – Repetition of consonant letters/sounds at the beginning of two or more words within a line. Eg: “soft-falling shower” etc…
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