Question

Poetic device in stanza 1 in poem A Tiger in the zoo

Answer 1

Answer

He stalks in his vivid stripes

The few steps of his cage,

On pads of velvet quiet,

In his quiet rage.

Stalks: follows

Vivid: bright colored

Pads: paws of tiger

Rage: anger

Here the poet says that the tiger that is confined in the zoo moves around in the cage under his bright coloured skin. He further says that the tiger can take only a few steps because the cage is small and it is not easy to move in it. One cannot hear his footsteps because he has very soft feet, like velvet because of which there is no sound of the tiger’s footsteps. The tiger tries to control his anger by quietly walking in the limited area of his cage. He is angry because he is not free.

Literary devices

Rhyme scheme: abcb (cage-rage)

Personification: The tiger is personified because the poet refers him as ‘he’.

Metaphor: Tiger’s paws are compared with velvet (pads of velvet)

Enjambment: Sentence is continuing to next line without any punctuation mark.

Imagery: poet tries to create an image about the tiger (He stalks in his vivid stripes The few steps of his cage)

Consonance: use of ‘s’ sound (stalks, his, stripes)

Assonance: use of vowel sound ‘I’ (in his vivid stripes)

Oxymoron: use of adjectives opposite in meaning (quiet rage)

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Answer 2

Metaphor, oxymoron, and personification are the poetic devices used in the first stanza of the poem

• A tiger in the zoo is a poem by Leslie Norris.
• In the first stanza, the poet is explaining the appearance of the tiger.
• The tiger is within a small cage.
• So the tiger can move a little within the cage.
• The stripes on the tiger's skin are very dark.
• The tiger is moving up and down the cage.
• Tiger is very angry but he is suppressing it.
• In the first stanza poet use personification: a poetic device.
• Poet refers to the tiger as he,
• Again he uses 'oxymoron': a poetic device where contradictory terms come in conjunction.
• 'Quiet rage' means that the tiger is angry, it wants to roar with rage.
• But he is suppressing it.
• Rage is always loud, but here it is quiet.
• Also we can see the metaphor, tiger's paw is compared to velvet pads
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