poetic devices in poem wind class 9 poem is here
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The poetic devices in the poem ‘wind’ are the simple ways in which the poem is written.
A poem with 23 lines but not divided into stanzas.
It is more or less as a conversation between two people where one is the speaker that is the poet and the other is the wind, which is the listener.
It is from line 13 that the poems starts to interact with the readers and stops conversing with the wind.
Rhyme scheme - The entire poem is written in free verse. There is no rhyme scheme in the poem.
The literary devices used are as follows –
Anaphora - When a word is repeated at the start of two or more consecutive lines, it is the device of Anaphora.
Lines 2, 3, 4 begin with ‘don’t’.
Lines 6, 7, 8 begin with ‘you’.
Personification – wind has been personified. When the poet says ‘you are’, he is referring to wind as ‘you’ that means he is treating wind as a person.
Repetition - ‘crumbling’ is repeated many times to lay emphasis. The poet wants to say that the wind crushes everything that is weak. That is why he repeats the word crumbling.
Alliteration - the repetition of a consonant sound in close connection. ‘wind winnows’.
‘won’t want’
Symbolism - Symbolism means that the thing refers to some other thing. wind is a symbol. It refers to the challenges in life. He is using wind as a symbol for the adversities in our life.