Poetry

English: Poetic devices

1. Poetic Devices

2. Poetic devices

3. Main focus

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5. My mother at Sixty-six by Kamala Das My Mother at Sixty-Six : Driving from my parent’s home to Cochin last Friday morning, I saw my mother, beside me, doze, open mouthed, her face ashen like that of a corpse and realized with pain that she was as old as she looked but soon put that thought away, and looked out at Young

6. Poem Continuation… Trees sprinting, the merry children spilling out of their homes, but after the airport’s security check, standing a few yards away, I looked again at her, wan, pale as a late winter’s moon and felt that old familiar ache, my childhood’s fear, but all I said was, see you soon, Amma, all I did was smile and smile and smile......

7. Poetic devices found in the poem

8. Simile The comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid  Uses as or like Lines 5-7 ‘face ashen like a corpse” Line 16 ‘as a late winter’s moon.’

9. metaphor

10. repetition

11. personification

12. Imagery visual images collectively. The poem uses imagery of youth and death. Line 11-12 ‘young trees and merry children’ =youth Line 6-7 ‘ like that of a corpse’ =death

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