Name all the figure of speech in the poem to the foot from it's child
Answers
"To the Foot from its Child" is one of the most celebrated poems by Pablo Neruda. Here is some of the figures of speech which occur throughout the poem, accompanied by an example each:-
1. Synecdoche (the child's foot as a part of the child's being)
Eg: Then the child's foot
was defeated, it fell
in battle,
it was a prisoner,
condemned to life in a shoe.
2. Pathetic Fallacy (adding human attributes to the foot)
Eg: A child's foot doesn't know it's a foot yet
And it wants to be a butterfly or an apple
3. Simile
Eg: exploring life like a blind man.
4. Imagery
Eg: and the child's little petals
were crushed, lost their balance,
took the form of a reptile without eyes,
with triangular heads like a worm's.
5. Metaphor (the growing up of the child into an adult)
Eg: And they had callused over,
they were covered
with tiny lava fields of death,
a hardening unasked for.
6. Euphemism (using favourable words to depict something unpleasant; in this case, Neruda talks about death)
Eg: And then it went down
into the earth and didn't know anything
because there everything was dark,
it didn't know it was no longer a foot