Question

Q4) Paraphase the following lines and identify the poetic devices.
I bubble into eddying bays,
I babble into the pebbles.​

Answer 1

The given excerpt is from the poem The Brook by Alfred lord Tennyson, a famous English poet of the nineteenth century, i.e. the Victorian age in England.

The paraphrase of the quoted line have been given as follows :-

The Brook tends to make bubbling sounds while meandering through the bays where the water moves in circular manner. Also, it makes babbling sound when its waters run past pebbles in the banks.

The poetic devices used in this excerpt are :-

1. Alliteration - The "b" sound dominates the two lines with the help of "bubble..bays..babble..pebbles.."
2. Personification - The Brook is attributed with human traits, evident in the usage of the first person singular pronoun "I"
3. Onomatopoeia - Two words in particular denote sounds here, "bubble" and "babble"
4. Imagery - The scenes of the brook moving through bays and crashing on pebbles is depicted here

Answer 2

Paraphrasing

These lines are from Alfred Lord Tennyson's famous poem The Brook. In this poem the brook is describing its life from its origin to its immersion into the river.

The given two lines describe how during its journey towards the river, the brook water gets trapped in bays where bubbles get formed in it while circling; the brook's water when flows over the pebbles it makes a sound.

Poetic Device

The poetic device used in these two lines is 'Personification'

Personification is the technique or practice of representing objects, qualities, etc. as humans, in art and literature. Poems, ‘The Brook’, ‘Song of the Rain’, and ‘Ode to Autumn’ are some famous examples of personification.