wind come softly with figure of speech
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'What does the wind do when its comes softly '' is an English Poem and describes the impact of a soft wind also known as a breeze. The poem describes the many advantages and blessing of a breeze including how it can blow out weak fires and does not damage homes.
Explanation:
The most common figure of speech in Subramania Bharati's "Wind" is Anaphora. The repetition of the word "don't" in the first three lines of the poem is an example of Anaphora. ... Hence, Ekphrasis is another figure of speech, common to poetry, that can be applied here.
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The Poet Subramania Bharathi uses the power of ANAPHORA in his poem “Wind”. This figure of speech, Anaphora, brings the effect of a loud speech in the poem, generally used by poets to express their loud speech (Shouts) in poetry.
The whole essence of this poem is that, the weak people breakdown easily during adversities of life. The strong people on the other hand emerge out of it even more stronger.
In the first few lines of the poetry, the poet asks the wind to come softly, like a small child.
“Wind, come softly.
Don’t break the shutters of the windows.
Don’t scatter the papers.
Don’t throw down the books on the shelf “
Figure of speech used : Anaphora
The repeated usage of the word Don’t consecutively in the beginning of lines 2,3,&4 is an example of the poetical figure of speech, “Anaphora”
In the next four lines, the poet tells the wind about the destruction it had made. The poet had asked it to come softly like a child, but instead it turned out to be a young boy full of energy, force and destruction.
5. “There, look what you did — you threw them all down.
6. You tore the pages of the books.
7. You brought rain again.
8. You’re very clever at poking fun at weaklings.”
Figure of speech used:
The repeated usage of the word You consecutively in the beginning of lines 6,7 &8 is an example of the poetical figure of speech, “Anaphora”
…poking fun at weaklings - Making fun of the weak people
9. “Frail crumbling houses, crumbling doors, crumbling rafters,
10. crumbling wood, crumbling bodies, crumbling lives,
11. crumbling hearts —
13. the wind god winnows and crushes them all”
Figure of speech used : Repetition and Alliteration
The word ‘Crumbling’ is repeated so many times to lay stress that everything crumbles in the face of a strong wind.
So, the writer is saying that when wind is very powerful, it is very strong, it leads to breakage of everything. Houses which are weak, fall, doors which are weak fall, the beams on which the roof of the buildings are supported, they also fall, all the wooden structures fall, all bodies of people fall, animals, lives, hearts. So, he is saying that everything crumbles. Everything that is weak reacts by falling down and breaking in the face of adversity. So, the poet is saying that whenever a weak person faces any adversity or challenge in life he breaks down and falls.
… Winnows — To separate the grains from the husks from the blowing wind - Alliteration is the repetition of a consonant sound in close connection. ‘wind winnows’.
‘won’t want’ — Alliteration
So here, a comparison is made between wheat and people.Just like we winnow the wheat to separate the grain from chaff, the wind god separates the strong people from the weak people. When there is a strong wind, all the things that are weak fall and get crushed. So here, a comparison is made between wheat and people.Just like we winnow the wheat to separate the grain from chaff, the wind god separates the strong people from the weak people. When there is a strong wind, all the things that are weak fall and get crushed.
“He won’t do what you tell him.
So, come, let’s build strong homes,
Let’s joint the doors firmly.
Practice to firm the body.
Make the heart steadfast.
Do this, and the wind will be friends with us.”
The poet wants us to make friends with the wind i.e. the adversities in our lives.He says that the problems will not listen to us. They will come, so we should be prepared. In preparation,we should build strong homes and close the doors of our house firmly so that the wind cannot get into. And then he says that we should also make our bodies strong and hearts firm to face these challenges. And then once we are strong enough all the challenges will be like friends. We will not feel that they are troublesome.
“The wind blows out weak fires.
He makes strong fires roar and flourish.
His friendship is good.
We praise him every day”
He is comparing the wind to god. He says that wind is god and we praise wind every day. He adds that everything that is weak gets finished off in the face of the strong wind. And all the things that are strong, flourish and grow to become stronger. He is giving us a very important message, that we should not feel bad that we are facing so many challenges and adversities in life. We should make our self physically and mentally strong to face these challenges. And once we are strong enough, we will overcome the challenges, we will become friends with them and then we will be happy that we had these challenges in our life because they help us become stronger and better.
Apart from these the figures of speech used in this poem are:
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.
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.
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