WHAT ARE THE POITRIC DEVICED USED IN THE POEM WIND
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Personification
Personification is a literary device in which the poet associates human attributes with some abstract idea or an inanimate object or a natural phenomenon.
Examples:
You tore the pages of the books
Here the pronoun ‘you’ refers to the wind, an element of nature. The wind is addressed as if it were a person.
He makes strong fires roar and flourishes
The possessive pronoun ‘he’ has been used to refer to the wind god who is presented as a man with tremendous power and force that can be both destructive and productive.
Metaphor
A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that it is not literally true but helps explain an idea or make a comparison.
Examples:
You’re very clever at poking fun at weaklings
Here the wind has been presented as a very clever and powerful being who terrifies and laughs at the weak and helpless.
You tore the pages of the books
Here the action of the wind has been described as a mischievous act of a naughty child, who makes a mess of everything in his/her playful but destructive way.
Anaphora
Anaphora is a poetic device in which a word or group of words is used repeatedly to create a special effect or to emphasise something.
Examples:
Don’ t break the shutters of the windows.
Don’t scatter the papers.
Don’t throw down the books on the shelf.
Here the imperative structure beginning with ‘Don’t’ is repeated at the beginning of three consecutive lines showing the speaker’s strong appeal to the wind not to do certain things.
Frail crumbling houses, crumbling doors, crumbling rafters, crumbling wood, crumbling bodies, crumbling lives, crumbling hearts
Here the word ‘crumbling’ is repeated a number of times to show the extent of damage caused by a stormy wind.
Symbolism
Apart from being one of the powerful natural forces, wind can also symbolise the adversities and challenges of life that have the potential of causing a lot of destruction, loss of life and property and the consequent pain.
There are other important symbols that the poet has used in the poem. For example, the symbols of ‘weak fires’ and ‘strong fires’ respectively represent people with little or no courage and people who have strong will and tenacity.
Another symbol that the poet has used is that of wind as a winnower i.e. someone who sorts things. Winnowing is one of the functions of wind. The wind strikes everybody and everything that comes it is way and destroys whatever or whoever is weak.
Some other symbols that have been used in the poem are – Wind as a naughty child who likes to create mischief and ruffles things up for fun and Wind as a powerful jester who looks down upon weaklings.
RHYME SCHEME
The poem is written in free verse, hence there is no rhyming scheme or pattern in it.
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Explanation:
Literary devices in the poem
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.