Examples of poetry devices i have found in other poems:
Rhyme:
I’m nobody, Who are you? By Emily Dickinson
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Rythym:
The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth
Repitition:
If, by Rudyard Kipling
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
Alliteration:
Cradle Song, by William Blake
Sleep sleep; in thy sleep
Little sorrows sit and weep
Assonance:
Daffodils, by William Wordsworth
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze
Consonance:
Tears Idle Tears, by Alfred Lord Tennyson
ears from the depth of some divine despair
Onomatopoeia:
The Bells, by Edgar Allen Poe
How they clang, and clash, and roar!
Personification:
WInter, by Olivia Kooker
If winter were a person, she would be a girl with frosty hair.
Winter would wear snow pants, snow boots, gloves, a hat, and scarf.
Simile:
The Hourglass, by Ben Jonson
And in his mistress' flame, playing like a fly,
Metaphor:
Hope is the Thing with Feathers, by Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
Imagery:
Summer Night, by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Now droops the milk-white peacock like a ghost,
And like a ghost she glimmers on to me.
I looked at Niel Gaiman’s ‘The Graveyard Book’ to see if i could find any of the poetic devices listed above:
“His shoes were black leather, and they were polished to such a shine they looked like dark mirrors:’ Similie
“He landed with a muffled thump on a small mound of furry, fuzzy toys” Onomotopoeia and Alliteration
“Time to work and time to play, Time to dance the Macabray” Rhyme
“The ghoul-gate was a grave once again, nothing more” Consonance
“Swans sing before they die” Personification
“How do you do, Miss Lupescu?” Assonance
“I am an empty doorway, I am a vacant allyway, I am nothing.” Metaphor
“The stone was held in place by black metal class, when something clause, something else crawling around it. Something else looked almost snakelike, it had too many herbs.” Imagery
I've attempted to write a few of my own lines using the poetic devices:
Rhyme: In the dark of winter’s night, we turn our eyes to fairy light.
Rhythm: I plucked the stem, and drew a breath, I whispered for you, and blew.
Repetition: You have my heart, you have my soul.
Alliteration: Watch the little lanterns light.
Assonance: In all I do, I do for you.
Consonance: Find the flames that flow from fire.
Onomatopoeia: Purring softly, the cat is peaceful.
Personification: Autumn flaunts her melancholic beauty.
Simile: The last glimpse of you faded like the last glimpse of the sun on the horizon.
Metaphor: She was the paper you cut the snowflakes from.
Imagery: In the stillness of midnight, no sound can be heard, as the dark she is a blanket, like snow on the earth.
I’ve also experimented with the devices to create my own poem:
Dandelion Wishes:
In the spring, there was a thought
That planted a seed
And grew through summer
The idea bloomed
As a weed
Relentlessly growing
Stubbornly living
Until the autumn
When I learned to miss its yellow petals
And realised, like a click of cogs
That the thought was not an idea
It was a wish
So I picked the stem
And drew a breath
I whispered for you
And blew.
Yes, I did use those last lines above as an example for rhythm! As I decided to write the poem alongside coming up with my own examples because it allowed my creativity to flow. I used my writing journal just to freely write down ideas that came naturally to me.
In the poem I wrote, i ‘doubled up’ some of the lines to use more than one poetic device. For example, ‘like a click of cogs’ uses alliteration, consonance, onomatopoeia and a simile.
I tried to create imagery by taking the image of a dandelion through the seasons and ‘missing its yellow petals’ to indicate it had changed.
There is some assonance in the line ‘and grew through summer, the idea bloomed’ which i think lends itself to the rhythm and rhyme of the poem too.
It is actually difficult to try and incorporate all of the devices without making the poem too long and dull! So a lot of the ideas I had for this were scrapped in the process of writing.
Overall though, I actually enjoyed the process and the result of creating my own poetry, especially because it felt more qualified to be a poem having studied the devices and how they're used.
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