Poetic Devices

POETIC DEVICES Figure of Speech a) Simile

1. speech that came like leech-craft 2. Like a golden swarm of fireflies you

came. 3. You repined into nectar in fruit-jars That hung like clustered stars. 4. O winging words! Like homing bees

you borrow

Line No. 1 (Oct 2007) Line No. 14 (July 2007, July 2008) Line No. 17,18 (March 2008)

Line No. 19 a) Apostrophe / Personificatio n

1. ‘O tongues of fire! You came

Line No. 6

devouring’ 2. ‘O winged seeds! You crossed the

furrowed seas.

Line No. 12 (March 2006)

3. ‘O winging words! Like homing

bees you borrow.

(Dept.M.Q.P.206) Line No. 19

a) Metaphor

1. You bleached our souls soiled with

Line No. 3

impurities 2. ‘O tongues of fire! You came

devouring’

Line No. 6

3. You were the dawn, and sunlight

filled the spaces. Line No. 10

Allusion Line No

Line

Reference

32, 33

“In the beginning was the Word

Biblical allusion.

And the Word was God”

St.John Chapter:1 Verse :1 (July 2006, Oct 2008)

27, 28

Fathomless words, with Indo-Aryan blood Tingling in your veins.

Linguistic allusion, (English belongs to Germanic, an Indo-Aryan language)

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Explanation

32, 33,

“In the beginning was the Word

The term “Word” implies to both Jesus

34, 35

And the Word was God” The word is in middle.

Christ and the ordinary man. In general, it refers to the words in a language.

And the Word in Man.

Paragraph Write a paragraph on V.K. Gokak’s address to English words: (March 2006. July 2006) English Words – V.K. Gokak V.K. Gokak, a famous Indian writer in English, expresses his admiration for the English language in the poem “English Words”. He brings out the efficacy of English words in delightful and poignant similes. How the language reached our country and changed our hearts is vividly described here. Like the ancient leech-craft, English words sucked the impurities of our souls and bleached our hearts. English words came like the tongues of fire and destroyed the enmeshing creepers and thorny shrubs that hindered the growth of the native languages. Like the sunlight, they drove away the owls of ignored. Like the winged seeds English words crossed many seas and settled in the winged seeds, Indian soil. They developed like a big tree bearing rich and ripened fruits bright future. They conveyed us the good news of endless blossoming and never-ending sparing. English words, which descended from Germanic, an Indo-Aryan language, have divinity in them. Though the concept is like the cosmic riddle, words symbolize God’s presence in man. Thus V.K. Gokak addresses to English words.

Poetic Devices a) Simile

1. And I, Like a second comer, waiting

2. He lifted his hade from his drinking, as

cattle do, And looked at me vaguely, as drinking cattle do, 3. How glad I was he had come like a guest in quiet, to drink at my watertrough 4. And flickered