POEM - Have You Read: The Battle Of Stamford Bridge By Laurence Binyon

Please Read: The Battle Of Stamford Bridge By Laurence Binyon, its all about poem and the love of it...
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Haste thee, Harold, haste thee North!
Norway ships in Humber crowd.
Tall Hardrada, Sigurd’s son,
For thy ruin this hath done-
England for his own hath vowed.

“The earls have fought, the earls are fled.
From Tyne to Ouse the homesteads flame.
York behind her battered wall
Waits the instant of

Read The 3 Major Poetic Devices In Vanity - By Birago Diop

Read The 3 Major Poetic Devices In Vanity -  By Birago Diop

If you have read the poem, in the poem Vanity by Birago Diop, there are three major poetic devices that gave the poem her grandeur. These are (1) Imagery (2) Repetition (3) Rhetorical Question.

Before we examine the great impact these three poetic devices have on the poem, let s take a look at the several poetic devicesin the poem.

(1) Alliteration: The repetition of consonants at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding, or at a short interval. In line 1 “gently gently”in line 8 “what eyes will watch” in line 15 “Dead came with their Dead” in line 25 “Did not understand our dead”.

(2) Imagery: This is the use of word in giving vivid picture of an occasion or object or person. In line four “sad complaining voices of beggars” it describes how the voices of the people in the poem look like. “Just as our fears were deaf” is a simile and imagery telling the readers how oblivion the people in the poem were. In line 14 “the black depths of our plaintive throats?” is also an imagery among many that exist in the poem.

(3) Metaphor: This’ an indirect comparison which opposes simile that uses “like” and “as” to create its own comparison. In line 4 of the poem “voices of beggars” in line 14 “plaintive throats” in line 9 “the laughter of big children”.

(4) Repetition: In the poem, there are repetin tioof words, phrases and lines. “Gengly” “what” “our” “laughter” “mouth” are few words repeated in the poem. There are partial repetition of lines, for instance: line 3 and 5 repeat “who… will hear… without laughter” in line 8 and