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Poetic Devices Class 12TH

The document discusses various poetic devices used in literature including alliteration, simile, metaphor, imagery, personification, repetition, and more. Examples of each device are provided from poems like 'My Mother at Sixty-Six' by Kamala Das and 'Keeping Quiet' by Pablo Neruda.

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Poetic Devices Class 12TH

The document discusses various poetic devices used in literature including alliteration, simile, metaphor, imagery, personification, repetition, and more. Examples of each device are provided from poems like 'My Mother at Sixty-Six' by Kamala Das and 'Keeping Quiet' by Pablo Neruda.

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POETIC DEVICES

CLASS 12TH CBSE


POETIC DEVICES ARE USED TO

Intensify Mood or
Create Rhythm Feeling
POETIC DEVICES (IN BRIEF)

• Alliteration- repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of closely placed words.


• Simile- comparing unlike objects by using ‘as’ or ‘like.’
• Metaphor- comparing unlike objects without using ‘as’ or ‘like’.The two things compared are fused.
• Imagery- creating pictures with words; imaginative language to represent objects, actions, etc in such a way
that it appeals to the senses of the readers.

• Personification- imparting human qualities or treating a thing as human.


• Transferred Epithet: an adjective or epithet describing a noun is transferred from the noun it is meant to
describe to another associated with it( ex- sleepless pillow, condemned cell, laborious days, etc).
POETIC DEVICES (IN BRIEF)- CONT.

• Repetition- words or phrases are repeated to lay emphasis.

• Anaphora- repetition of a word at the beginning of two or more consecutive lines.

• Enjambment- continuation of a sentence without pause to the next line or stanza.

• Synecdoche- a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa.

• Irony- used to express an intended meaning by using language that conveys the opposite
meaning when taken literally.
MY MOTHER AT SIXTY-SIX
- KAMALA DAS

1. Simile:
- ashen like that of a corpse; wan, pale as a late winter’s moon
2. Imagery:
- merry children spilling out of their homes; young trees sprinting
3. Repetition:
- smile and smile and smile
4. Personification:
- trees sprinting
KEEPING QUIET
-PABLO NERUDA
• count to twelve- symbolizes a measure of time. The clock has 12 markings on it; the year has 12
months, and the day has 12 hours.
1. Anaphora- two lines starting with let’s
2. Pun: use of arms
- arms refer to body parts and weapons
3. Symbolism:
- brothers (show harmony; mankind)
- clean clothes (clear conscience; no enmity)
- Green wars (man’s indiscriminate exploitation of Nature for personal gains)
- Fisherman (oppressor) and whales (oppressed)
KEEPING QUIET
- PABLO NERUDA (CONT.)
. Alliteration:
- We would; wars with; sudden strangeness; hurt hands; clean clothes ; so single-minded
- Personification- Earth can teach us
• Enjambment- now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still; For once on the …
stop for one second
- And for once could perhaps a huge silence…with death
Irony- victory with no survivors
Metaphor- when everything seems dead (period of stillness compared with the winters)
A THING OF BEAUTY
JOHN KEATS

1. Metaphor: a flowery band; endless fountain of immortal drink


2. Alliteration:
- Band bind; some shape; noble natures; simple sheep; cooling covert; have heard
3. Transferred Epithet: gloomy days
4. Imagery : flowery band; such the sun, the moon; shady boon; green world; sheep; clear rills;
cooling covert; endless fountain; pouring unto us
5. Antithesis- old and young
6. Anaphora- of noble…/ of all…
A ROADSIDE STAND
- ROBERT FROST

1. Transferred Epithet - polished traffic; selfish cars

2. Personification:

-a roadside stand that too pathetically pled

- sadness that lurks behind the window

3. Alliteration: pathetically pled greed good-doers; beneficent beasts of prey;

4. Oxymoron: greedy good-doers; beneficent beasts of prey

5. Metaphor: the flower of cities


AUNT JENNIFER’S TIGERS
- ADRIENNE RICH
1. Alliteration: fingers fluttering; prancing proud

2. Irony

-Tigers drawn by Aunt Jennifer are bold, brave, confident, fearless, and strong while the creator is weak, submissive, fearful and a
nervous wreck

3. Metaphor: bright Topaz denizens

4. Synecdoche: terrified hands

5.Transferred Epithet: terrified hands

6.. Hyperbole- weight of a husband’s wedding band


AUNT JENNIFER’S TIGERS
- ADRIENNE RICH(CONT.)
7. Symbolism:

i.Tigers: aunt's inner desire; male dominance; art

ii. Wedding band: oppression of marriage

iii. Aunt Jennifer - oppressed woman

iv. uncle - male chauvinism

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