what kinds of literary devices are in this poem? The Beautiful Changes by Richard Wilbur. I'm not quiet sure so i want to double check. thank you so much for your help.
One wading a Fall meadow finds on all sides
The Queen Anne's Lace lying like lilies
On water; it glides
So from the walker, it turns
Dry grass to a lake, as the slightest shade of you
Valleys my mind in fabulous blue Lucernes.
The beautiful changes as a forest is changed
By a chameleon's tuning his skin to it;
As a mantis, arranged
On a green leaf, grows
Into it, makes the leaf leafier, and proves
Any greenness is greener than anyone knows.
Your hands hold roses always in a way that says
They are not only yours; the beautiful changes
In such kind ways,
Wishing ever to sunder
Things and Thing's selves for a second finding, to lose
For a moment all that it touches back to wonder.
What kind of devices are in this poem?
Well, there is aliteration (one wading/slightest shade/hands hold), assonance, simile (Queen Anne's lace lying like lilies...which is also an extended aliteration)...a metaphor as it "turns dry grass to a lake".
this should get you started.
Monday, January 23, 2012
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