Question

Write THREE Poetic Devices from the poem 'The Fog' by William Henry Davies

Answer 1

Answer:

Poetic Device              Example

1. Personification          It clutched my throat

2. Simile                          eyes like balls of burning lead  

3. Alliteration                 know no place

4. Metaphor                   Or be the heavenly stars

                                    made blind my ken

Explanation:

1. 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.

2. Simile: Simile is a word or phrase that compares something to something else, using words ‘like’, or ‘as’, for example ‘Her gown was as white as snow.’

3. Alliteration: Alliteration is the use of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words that are close together, as ‘She sang a song of sixpence.’  (The figure of speech used in the expression 'colourless cracks' is ‘alliteration.

4. Metaphor: Metaphor is a word or phrase used to describe a person or something else in a way that is different from its normal use, in order to show that the two things have the same qualities and to make the description more powerful, for example ‘She has a heart of stone.’

Answer 2

Answer:

Explanation:

There are three poetic devices present in the poem “ The Fog” by William Henry Davies.

Personification, Simile and Metaphor. In the first part of the poem, the fog is given different human qualities such as grasping, gripping and wandering like the line, “nothing was in my head.”

It is also an example of Simile, where comparison is made through the use of like or as,especially in the line, “except two heavy eyes like balls of burning lead.”  

Metaphor is also seen in the poem, where the poet compares the cars and streetlights to the heavenly stars.