Walt Whitman: from "Song of Myself" - Read Flashcards
poetic devices
- repetition, personification, metaphor, inverted syntax, sound devices
- alliteration (repetition of first consonant sounds in a string of words)
- onomatopoeia (a word that imitates a sound, or tat sounds like its definition)
in speaking about the grass in Lines 19-22 from “Song of Myself,” Whitman uses the poetic device of
Sec.6 Lines 15, 19-22:
“A child said What is the grass?…”
“Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer desingedly dropt, Breaing the owern’s name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark and say Whose?”
extended metaphor
What free verse poetic device does Whitman use in these underlined words from “Song of Myself”?
Sec.6 Lines 31-34:
“It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men, It may be if I had known them I would have loved them, It may be you are form old people, or from offspring taken soon out of their mothers’ laps”
repetition
Line 5 of Whitman’s poem, “Song of Myself,” is a good example of
Sec 1 Line 5: “I loafe and lean at my ease
alliteration
In line 129 sec. 52 of his poem “Song of Myself,” Whitman uses the sound device of Line 129: “Failing to fetch me at first”
alliteration
the underlined word in Line 111 of Whitman’s “Song of Myself” is an example of what sound device?
sec 33 line 111: “The whizz of limbs, heads, stone, wood, iron, high in the air”
onomatopoeia