How is pathos brought out in the line in his side there are two red holes asleep in the valley?
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- The poet has employed many poetic devices in his poem Asleep in the Valley. Some of them are as follows-‘A small green valley where a slow stream flows/ And leaves long strands of silver’- This poem is rhythmical, and full of alliteration. This is the first instance of Alliteration used in the poem. Alliteration is the occurrence of same sounds or same letters adjacently or in close quarters.‘sun-soaked bed’- this is another instance of Alliteration.‘Ah, Nature, keep him warm; he may catch cold’- this is an instance of an Apostrophe. An apostrophe is a figure of speech used to address an inanimate object or an abstract quality.This is also an act of Personification. Nature is personified as a human being who is to assume the role of a caretaker for the sleeping soldier.‘In his side there are two red holes’- this line is an example of Metonymy. Metonymy is a figure of speech by which the name or meaning of a thing or concept is substituted by its attributes. Instead of writing ‘two bullet holes’, Rimbaud writes ‘two red holes’. Bullets puncture the body and causes bleeding which turns the holes red. Thus, he substitutes the word bullet by red, which represents the quality of the bullet.
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