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    A Thing of Beauty: Literary Devices

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    The poem uses various literary devices to describe the stark contrast between privileged and underprivileged children and their outlook on life. Similes compare the underprivileged children to rootless weeds and bottle bits. Metaphors describe their surroundings as catacombs and their future as sealed with a lead sky. Imagery of weighed down children conveys the burden of poverty. The poem advocates for educating disadvantaged children to change their lives.

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    A Thing of Beauty: Literary Devices

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    The poem uses various literary devices to describe the stark contrast between privileged and underprivileged children and their outlook on life. Similes compare the underprivileged children to rootless weeds and bottle bits. Metaphors describe their surroundings as catacombs and their future as sealed with a lead sky. Imagery of weighed down children conveys the burden of poverty. The poem advocates for educating disadvantaged children to change their lives.

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    The poem uses various literary devices to describe the stark contrast between privileged and underprivileged children and their outlook on life. Similes compare the underprivileged children to rootless weeds and bottle bits. Metaphors describe their surroundings as catacombs and their future as sealed with a lead sky. Imagery of weighed down children conveys the burden of poverty. The poem advocates for educating disadvantaged children to change their lives.

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    A Thing of Beauty: Literary Devices

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    Manila Nanda
    The poem uses various literary devices to describe the stark contrast between privileged and underprivileged children and their outlook on life. Similes compare the underprivileged children to rootless weeds and bottle bits. Metaphors describe their surroundings as catacombs and their future as sealed with a lead sky. Imagery of weighed down children conveys the burden of poverty. The poem advocates for educating disadvantaged children to change their lives.

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    Literary Devices

    A Thing of beauty

    Metaphor

    a )a thing of beauty -compared to joy

    b) ‘bower quiet ‘– quiet shady part in the garden

    c)sweet dreams – happy dreams

    d)wreathing a flowery band – connecting to nature

    e)Pall-a covering like a shroud

    f)endless fountain of immortal drink (beautiful objects of nature are forever like a never ending
    drink)

    g)List of beautiful things is metaphors and symbols of nature

    Alliteration:
    a)Noble natures

    b)cooling covert

    c)band to bind

    d)sprouting shady

    e)simple sheep

    f)have heard

    Imagery :
    a)flowery bands –image of beautiful things lined up in a string

    b)shady boon
    Literary Devices

    Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers


    symbols :
    *Aunt Jennifer

    *Tigers

    *Wedding band

    *Aunt Jennifer’s hand

    Synecdoche and Transferred Epithet:


    *Terrified Hands

    Pun:
    *Ringed

    Irony:
    – a weak woman ...strong tigers

    -Brutal tigers-chivalric-

    -Cultured man-oppressor

    -Creator dies – her work will continue

    Hyperbole:
    – exaggeration of the weight of her husband’s wedding ring to show his dominance

    Contrast :
    -Aunt Jennifer and Tigers

    -strong yellow and green colours – words ‘prancing ‘and ‘fluttering’

    Alliteration:
    Literary Devices

    My Mother at Sixty Six


    Simile

    a face ashen like a corpse – face dull, pale and colourless ...lost all vitality grey colour of ash usually
    associated with a dead body.

    b) as a late winter’s moon – face pale and lifeless like that of fading winter moon… fog and mist in
    winter, face and misted by wrinkles, poor health winter...Last cycle of the season...

    Personification :

    a)trees sprinting –humans run

    –attribute of human given to trees

    Repetition :

    – smile and smile and smile (desperate attempt to cover her guilt, pain, anxiety )

    Metaphor :

    Merry children spilling

    Imagery :

    Merry children spilling out of their homes: youthful, energetic, happy, full of life (life outside
    compared /contrasted to the morbid atmosphere inside the car – the old mother is weak, pale, frail
    and inactive)

    Anaphora:

    Repetition of a word/phrase

    smile and smile and smile

    Alliteration:

    my mother
    LITERARY DEVICES

    Keeping Quiet
    1.Alliteration - * we will

    * we would

    *once on

    * his hurt hands * wars with

    * clean clothes

    * we were

    * so single-minded

    2 Anti-thesis – * count to twelve and we will all keep still

    3. Repetition – * without rush , without engines

    *use of war

    *Let’s - to create a bond with the reader

    4. Imagery- *fishermen in the cold sea ……… hurt hands

    (Man ruthlessly destroying nature, killing fish ...sore hands...how man is harming himself by his
    mindless activities)

    5. Metaphor:

    a )In the shade- just as shade protects from harsh sun, we will protect and shelter each other as
    brothers, thus live in peace and harmony.

    b) Put on clean clothes:

    Man will shed blood... soiled clothes ...cleanse


    LITERARY DEVICES

    An Elementary School Classroom

    Simile:

    a) Like rootless weeds – Children compared to weeds or unwanted section of society.


    b) Like bottle bits - The spectacles frame their stony eyed expression /hard faces.
    c) Windows that shut open their lives like catacombs …the classroom and homes in which the
    slum children live have been compared to underground burial chambers.

    Metaphor:

    a) Paper seeming boy


    b) Rat’s eyes
    c) Gusty waves – the privileged children compared to gusty waves – energetic and active.
    d) Future ‘s painted with the fog – uncertain and unclear future.
    e) Sealed in with a lead sky - depressing future( dull grey colour of sky ).
    f) Stars of words - words or literature written by writers like Shakespeare that create images
    which are bright, beautiful and inspiring like stars .
    g) From fog to endless night - future from birth till death without any hope.
    h) Wear skins peeped through by bones- thin, weak body is reduced to mere skin and bones
    due to poverty.
    i) Let their tongues run naked into books
    (to allow children to taste/experience the variety life as described in books… to give them
    an experience of beautiful bright world outside the miserable life of slum)
    j) ‘ Whose language is the sun…’( good education to change their lives… lives full of hope,
    energy, joy)
    Imagery:
    ‘ weighed down’ – refers to burden of poverty and hopelessness.
    visual imagery:
    …And show the children to green fields and make their world
    Run azure on gold sands, and let their tongues
    Run naked into books the white and green leaves open
    History theirs whose language is the sun.
    Tone of the poem –Sombre
    -Profound expressing a serious problem

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