ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Metaphor: Readers can find an implicit comparison between music and human voice in this line “That music hath a far more pleasing sound”. Hyperbole: It occurs in the following lines: “If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head” and “Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks”.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sonnet 130 Literary Devices The metaphors are usually used in the negative, resisting the comparisons that other poets might make. The speaker’s mistress’s features are negatively compared to the sun, snow, roses, perfume, and music. Even coral is redder than her lips.

Detailed explanation-3: -The most notable poetic device is antithesis, the use of opposites, as the poet breaks his mistress into body parts that are negatives of praise: “nothing like the sun, ” “coral is much more red, ” “her breasts are dun” and “black wires spring from her head.” The device fragments the mistress.

Detailed explanation-4: -Metaphor is a common poetic device where an object in, or the subject of, a poem is described as being the same as another otherwise unrelated object. A beautiful example can be seen in the first stanza of The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes, in the line: The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas…

Detailed explanation-5: -Poetic devices are a form of literary device used in poetry. Poems are created out of poetic devices composite of: structural, grammatical, rhythmic, metrical, verbal, and visual elements. They are essential tools that a poet uses to create rhythm, enhance a poem’s meaning, or intensify a mood or feeling.