Monday, January 23, 2012

What kind of devices are in this poem?

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.


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