What is the poetic device used in the phrase “Laboured ease of loss?”
What is the poetic device used in the phrase “Laboured ease of loss?”
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Oxymoron is the literary device used in the phrase “laboured ease of loss”. Oxymoron is a literary device in which two contrasting and contradictory things are brought together. In the poem, laboured refers to struggle which is opposite of ease.
Here, this phrase means that the poet, like her mother, has learnt to live with the loss of their dear things i.e. poet’s mother has learnt to live with the sorrow of losing her youth while poet herself has learnt to live with the sorrow of her mother.
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