Personification : This device is employed in the line, ‘But swinging doesn’t bend them down to stay/As ice-storms do.’ As humans, ice-storms bend these birches. And this device is seen to run through the poem in complementary effort to dramatic monologue. With this device, readers could visualise even the boyhood experience of the poet speaker and internalise his perception of birches. Imagery : Right from the opening of the poem where the poet recounts, ‘When I see birches bend to left and right/Across the lines of straighter darker trees,’ we recorded the use of imagery. Also, to communicate his displeasure with affairs of the present society, he says, ‘And life is too much like a pathless wood’. Simile : In order to draw the attention of his readers to his intended point of view, the poet speaker deploys simile in ‘… trailing their leaves on ground/Like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair’ to describe the way the leaves of long forgotten birches bent by ice storms. Through is also, his frustration is noted as he confesses ‘It’s when I’m weary of considerations/And life is too much like a pathless wood’. Through it, dramatically recaps what his boyhood experience looked like as he is left to swing on birches. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole.ĪNALYZING THE POETIC DEVICES AND THEMES IN THE POEMĭramatic Monologue : We notice through the use of the first person pronoun ‘I’ and the second person pronoun ‘You’, the poet has through the device dramatic monologue unveil his thought on how the birches have been neglected in the hands of ice storms to bend. Exam Reflection Literature-in-English (Prose and Drama ) by Sunday OlatejuFaniyi.Exam Reflection Literature- in-English by Sunday OlatejuFaniyi.She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith.
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