Write the poetic devices used in the poem 'wind'.
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Class - 9
English textbook - Beehive
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The poet treats wind, a natural phenomenon, as a person, a human being.It symbolizes, difficulties, obstacles, struggle and a menacing power. It, however, gives a strong moral that one must have robustness and strength to face the obstacles in life . otherwise, as the wind destroys
weak things so will be all those who are weak and not strong. Wind has become a force to reckon with one's strength and power. The poet invests the wind human attributes and describes it menacingly. The moral is that one must face obstacles and odds in life with strength and boldness.
A device which compares unlike two things or qualities.
Line 12: The wind god winnows... ( Here 'winnows' is a metaphor for seperating the weak from the strong.)
A figure of speech which is used for an inanimate object or animals/birds looking or behaving like humans. Here wind is a human.
Lines 5-8: There, look what you did— you threw them all down/you tore the pages of the books...
Line 18: Do this and the wind will be friends with us.
Line 21: He makes strong fires roar and flourish.
Line 22: We praise him everyday( Here the wind is personified as a God.)
This means the repetition of a word or phrase of the beginning of successive clauses. Instances are :
Lines 2,3 and 4 — Repetition of 'Don't'.
Lines 6,7and 8 — Repetition of 'You'.
Lines 14 and 15 — Repetition of 'Let's'.
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As the name suggests this poem is about wind. However, the wind is a natural phenomenon. And in the poem, the poet describes the power of the wind and calls wind destructive. Further, he links the destructive power of the wind with the difficulties of life. He says that weak people breakdown easily, but stronger people emerge out stronger. Also, the poem gives a very important lesson that we should be mentally tough and physically strong in order to survive the hardships of life. However, a weak person crumbles and breakdown like an old building. So it is necessary that we should make these destructive forces our friends with our determination and strength.
- The entire poem is written in free verse. There is no rhyme scheme in the poem.
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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’.
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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.
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‘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.
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the repetition of a consonant sound in close connection.
- ‘wind winnows’.
- ‘won’t want’
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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.