Appreciation of the poem "poetry " by Pablo neruda including visual and auditory images,simile,alliteration,rhyming scheme,and assonance.To get full Mark in exam........who will answer the following full I will Mark as brainlist
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Pablo Neruda’s draws on his own experiences in the poem ‘Poetry’. Like a true poet, he takes a simple theme and makes it come alive with a host of literary devices and precise imagery.
1. Personification- What strikes the reader right in the beginning of the poem is how the poet addresses poetry as a person.
‘Poetry arrived/ in search of me’
This personification wakes up the reader to the physicality of one individual looking for another.
2. Inversion- While most poets seek inspiration, in this poem, poetry itself is seen reaching out to the poet. This is a complete inversion of ideas.
3. Diction- The poet has used simple as well as a little complex diction. For instance,
‘I don't know, I don't know where/ it came from’, is simple language. However, ‘the branches of night’ and ‘palpitating plantations’ are more complex. This has possibly been done to show what the poet went through- utter confusion with bits of understanding until he finally becomes a successful poet.
4. Alliteration- ‘palpitating plantations’.
5. Word play, suggesting opposites- The poet has put opposing ideas together to show the complex feelings.
‘pure/nonsense,/ pure wisdom/ of someone who knows nothing’
and
‘arrows, fire and flowers’
Also, though poetry is ‘a great starry/ void’ and an ‘abyss’, it holds a lot of promise. This is also a contradictory idea.
6. Imagery- The poem has an abundance of imagery. Each of the images contributes to the feel of the poem.
o Visual imagery- ‘riddled/ with arrows, fire and flowers’
And ‘my eyes were blind’
o Auditory imagery- ‘no they were not voices, they were not/ words, nor silence’
o Tactile imagery- ‘it touched me’
o Calm imagery- ‘felt myself a pure part/ of the abyss’,
o Violent imagery- ‘violent fires’ and ‘the heavens/ unfastened and riddled/ with arrows, fire and flowers’
7. Tone- The poem starts calmly, in a matter-of-fact sort of way. Gradually, the pace increases, as does the mystery.
First stanza – ‘I was summoned’
Second stanza- ‘and something started in my soul’ and then ‘suddenly I saw/ the heavens/ unfastened’
Third stanza- ‘I wheeled with the stars,/ my heart broke loose on the wind’
Put together, Pablo Neruda, has used words effectively, to pour his heart out to the readers.
Personification: The poet personifies the poetry as person and states “Poetry arrived”
Inversion: instead of saying he went in search of poem, he says “Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know,”
Imagery: “by saying that he was summoned “from the branches of night; violent fires” invokes the strong images. The poem is filled with images.
His use of style and dictation is quite formal because he does not want the readers to miss out the importance of happening.
The rhythm and the form seem to vary from stanza to stanza because the poet wants us to emphasize on those words which he had done. The rhythm is also smooth but, the tone is intense.
Alliteration: “Something started in my Soul”; “fever or forgotten wings” are some of the alliteration which gives us the impact the poet has gone through.
Paradox: “ Pure wisdom of someone who knows nothing”
Hyperbole: we have exaggerated statements like, “There I was without a face”; “My heart broke loose on the wind”; “I wheeled with the stars” etc.