Essays on Alliteration Page 3

John Updike employs personification in his poem “Player Piano” to animate an inanimate object, the piano. Through his choice of words, Updike effectively enables readers to delve into the psyche of the “Player Piano”. The presence of assonance and consonance in the poem’s opening lines further enhance its musicality. In line one, these literary devices…

In his poem “Do Not Go Gently into that Good Night” Dylan Thomas mainly portrays his view through imagery, choice of words, and the constant use of metaphors. The poem uses only two rhyme sounds while repeating the first and third line end words throughout the third line of each stanza and using both words…

Nelson Mandela once said, “May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears” The idea of hope being a gift that helps us move forward in difficult moments is explored by Emily Dickinson in the extended metaphor poem entitled “Hope” is the thing with feathers” and by Dylan Thomas in the villanelle poem entitled “Do…

Walt Whitman is known to be one of the most well-known and influential poets in American history. After travelling the American countryside, he developed Leaves of Grass then sold his house to print and publish it himself. “In Leaves of Grass, he celebrated democracy, nature, love, and friendship” (“Walt Whitman”, Poetry Foundation). His community took…