Name any three poetric devices used in the poem wind along with examples from the poem
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Explanation:
Alliteration (wind god winnows<repetition of 'w' soumd>,fires ... flourish<repetition of 'f' sound>)
There are several examples of alliteration:
Stanza 1: house has...black astride and blinding.
Stanza 2: hills had....wind wielded...Blade-light,luminous black...like the lens.
Stanza 4: Back gull bent like an iron bar.
Stanza 5: green goblet....front of the great fire.
Stanza 6: We watch.
Metaphor
The first line introduces the metaphorical idea that the house is or has been a ship (or boat or vessel), out at sea.
The second stanza has Blade-light, that is, the light is a cutting instrument.
And the third stanza has the tent of the hills, suggesting temporariness and tension as the wind blasts the hill.
Personification
Where objects and things take on human characteristics:
wind wielded....The fields quivering....skyline a grimace...window tremble....stones cry out.