CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Anaphora: The poet urges the wind to come quietly, like a young kid, in the opening few words of the poem. Anaphora is the figure of speech employed here. The poetical figure of speech “Anaphora” is demonstrated by the repeated use of the phrase “don’t” in the beginning of lines two, three, and four.

Detailed explanation-2: -a. Apostrophe –The poet directly addresses the wind which is an inanimate object to blow softly.

Detailed explanation-3: -Alliteration-It is the repetition of a letter at the start of closely placed words. The repetition of the letter: ‘W’ in won’t do what. ‘W’ in wind will be friends with.

Detailed explanation-4: -Poets use figures of speech in their poems. Several types of figures of speech exist for them to choose from. Five common ones are simile, metaphor, personification, hypberbole, and understatement. A simile compares one thing to another by using the words like or as.

Detailed explanation-5: -In the poem, the technique of personification has been used. A personification is a figure of speech that is used to offer human qualities to non-human objects in literary works. In the poem, wind, leaves, winter, snow, etc. are personified.