all literary devices used in poem snake
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The poetic device which are used in the poem snake.
Simile;
"...as cattle do, ... as drinking cattle do."
"Lifted its head as one who has drunken."
"For he is to me again like a king."
Metaphor;
"Dark door" refers to hole.
"The voice of my education" refers to the poet's previous lessons concerning the snake.
Alliteration;
"Peaceful pacified"
"Burning bowels"
Personification;
"Sipped with his straight mouth". The snake is not a man that can sip drinks.
Repetitions;
Many words and expressions are repeated for emphasis and rhythm. They include: "On a hot day", "must wait", "as cattle do", etc.
Allusion;
"Albatross" in the poem refers or alludes to the killing of a bird by a sailor in Coleridge's epic poem titled "Ancient Mariner". Again, "Sililian July" and "Etna smoking" are equally events in history.
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Personification: The snake is personified by the poet in this poem.
Simile: “When a comparison is made between two different things”, it is known as the simile.
He uses simile when he compares the snake to cattle.
“He lifted his head from his drinking, as cattle do,
And looked at me vaguely, as drinking cattle do,”
He also uses in the “twelfth stanza” “And looked around like a god,”
“For he seemed to me again like a king,” in the eighteenth stanza.
Anaphora: The repetition of a word or set of words at the beginning of a line in a stanza is known as Anaphora. Here, it is used in the stanza where he starts with “Was it cowardice,....."
Onomatopeia is otherwise known as the sound word. The spelling of the word reflects the sound of the word like, “bomb”. Here, the word “clatter” is used. “I picked up a clumsy log and threw it at the water-trough with a clatter.”