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    Poem 1.

    My Mother at
    Sixty-six
    Simile:
    Like that of a corpse
    As old as
    As a late winter’s moon
    Merry children spilling –
    Metaphor
    Young Trees sprinting –
    Personification
    Smile and smile and
    smile – Repetition
    Young Trees sprinting …
    their homes – Imagery
    Poem 1. My Mother at Sixty-six
    Simile- Like that of a corpse, As old as as a late winter’s moon
    Metaphor- Merry children spilling

    Personification- Young Trees sprinting

    Repetition -Smile and smile and smile

    Imagery - Young Trees sprinting … their homes

    Poem 2. Keeping Quiet


    Now we will … all keep still – Symbolism & Antithesis

    We will, Hurt hands, clean clothes, what I want, so Single-minded, We would - Alliteration

    Clean clothes- Metaphor

    Face of the Earth, The Earth can teach us – Personification

    Let’s not … Let’s stop … for one second – Anaphora

    Without rush, without engines, Wars with gas, wars with fire – Repetition

    Fishermen, Whales, The man gathering salt, Brothers – Symbolism

    Cold sea – Antithesis, transferred epithet

    Green wars – Irony

    Victory with no survivors – Paradox

    Walk about with their brothers in the shade, doing nothing– Antithesis

    Everything seems dead and later proves to be alive – Antithesis

    Poem 4. A Thing of
    Beauty
    Metaphor :
    Bower
    Dreams
    Morrow
    Flowery band
    Pall
    Endless fountain of
    immortal drink
    Gloomy days
    O’er-darkened ways
    Immortal drink
    Imagery :
    A flowery band … the
    earth
    Such the sun … grandeur
    of the dooms
    An endless … immortal
    drink
    Gloomy days –
    Transferred Epithet
    Simple sheep –
    Symbolism & Allusion
    Old and young –
    Antithesis
    Mighty dead – Oxymoron
    Immortal drink –
    Transferred Epithet
    Poem 3. A Thing of Beauty
    Metaphor :

    Bower

    Dreams

    Morrow

    Flowery band

    Pall

    Endless fountain of immortal drink

    Gloomy days

    O’er-darkened ways

    Immortal drink

    Imagery :
    A flowery band … the earth

    Such the sun …

    An endless … immortal drink

    Transferred Epithet: Gloomy days

    Symbolism & Allusion: Simple sheep

    Antithesis: Old and young

    Oxymoron: Mighty dead, grandeur of the dooms

    Transferred Epithet: Immortal drink

    Poem 4. A Roadside Stand


    The little old house was out with a little new shed – Antithesis & Repetition

    A roadside stand that too pathetically pled – Personification & Alliteration

    The flower of cities from sinking and withering faint, The flower of cities, Swarm over their lives –
    Metaphor

    The polished traffic passed with a mind ahead– Transferred Epithet & Personification

    The hurt to the scenery – Personification

    Trusting sorrow, Selfish cars – Transferred Epithet

    Here far – Oxymoron

    Moving-pictures’ promise – Personification

    Party in power- Alliteration

    Greedy good-doers, Beneficent beasts of prey- Oxymoron and alliteration

    Squeal – Onomatopoeia

    Poem-5: Aunt Jennifer's Tigers


    Bright topaz denizens of a world of green – Metaphor & imagery

    Men beneath the tree – Imagery

    They do not fear …… They pace in sleek chivalric certainty – Anaphora & Personification.

    Sleek chivalric certainty – Personification & Alliteration


    Fingers fluttering – Alliteration.

    The massive weight of Uncle's wedding band – Hyperbole.

    Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer's hand – Personification.

    Terrified hands – Transferred Epithet

    Still ringed with ordeals she was mastered by – Paradox & Pun

    Will go on prancing, proud, and unafraid – Personification & Alliteration

    Symbolism :

    Aunt Jennifer

    Aunt Jennifer’s tigers

    Aunt Jennifer’s hands

    Uncle

    Ivory needle

    Wedding band

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