What is poetic device in ch- Going for water
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Answer:
Aliteration
Explanation:
Alliteration is one of the devices Frost uses within his poem. He uses it twice. Once when he writes, “But once within the wood, we paused” and also when he writes, “We heard, we knew, we heard the brook.” The later almost sounds like a riddle. The repeated use of the consonant 'w' emphasizes the words used.
Answer:
In the poem ‘Going for water’ by Robert Frost, several themes run ranging from nature, childhood, and imagination to expectations versus reality. This poem thus contains several motifs for reflection with profound sagacity. When examining these themes separately this thought could be expatiated.
When considering the theme of childhood, the characters are assumed as children since the story in the poem is similar to the one in the nursery rhyme “jack and jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water”. This journey is adventurous as the two children undertake this mission of finding the brook at night. They do not appear scared at first because they hint at knowing and owning the woods. ‘because the fields were ours, and by the brook our woods were there’. A child’s imagination is seen in the lines ‘like gnomes that hid us from the moon’. This simile adds to the fairytale quality to the journey they take at night. Gnomes being imaginary creatures suggest that there is an element of something unreal in the journey they undertake in search of the brook. The love and caring the two children has for each other is depicted by the line “each laid on other a staying hand” which suggests that they think alike with their protective instincts. This thought is continued in the line ‘and in the hush we joined to make’ which are childish actions.
alliteration is the poetic device