Question

poetic devices in poem night mail

Answer 1

Answer:

POETIC DEVICES:

1. Imagery: “This is the night mail crossing the Border”

“Birds turn their heads as she approaches”

“Snorting noisily as she passes.”

“But a jug in the bedroom gently shakes.”

2. Personification “Snorting noisily as she passes”

“In the farm, she passes no one wakes.”

“Shovelling white steam over her shoulder.”

3. Metaphors-glade of cranes

fields of apparatus

4. Simile-dark plain like gigantic chessmen

5. End Rhyme: End rhyme “border/order”,

“passes/grasses”

“wakes/shakes.”

6. Rhyme Scheme: The poem follows an ABAB rhyme scheme and

this pattern continues until the end of the poem, leaving some

stanzas.

Answer 2

In his poem "Night Mail," Auden employs a number of literary devices.

• These include sibilance, alliteration, simile, metaphor, enjambment, anaphora, and enjambment.
• The first, called anaphora, is when a word or phrase is repeated at the start of several lines, typically one after the other.
• In order to achieve a particular impact or mood in their poetry, poets use poetic devices, which include techniques and components like rhyme, metre, figurative language, as well as repetition, alliteration, and images.
• There are numerous alliterations, and in one case the author used a poetic device called "sibilance" because the alliteration has a hissing or sibilant quality.
• When an object in a poem or its topic is compared to another object that is not directly related to it, this is known as a metaphor.

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