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Poetry and Figurative Language Paper

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Mark Jones

Edward Wilson

June 12, 2014

Introduction

Poetry has been used since time immemorial for passing information to the society. Poets have however used different stylistic devices in ensuring that their message has been passed to their intended audience. Imagery, rhymes, symbolism, among other ingredients of figurative language is among the commonly used stylistic devices that poets use. This paper seeks to identify imagery, metaphors, rhyme and structure in three specific poems and identifying the effect, which such figurative language has had on the content and the message of the poems.

Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

This is a poem where the poet gives a description of how he met two diverging roads in a yellow road and took the road the road that was less travelled, a decision that brought the big difference in his life. The message presented in the poem is very moving where the poet is speaking about making a decision out of two competing situations.

Imagery- the first line of the poem creates an image where the reader is taken to a yellow wood and the poet describes of the two roads at the yellow woods. In the second stanza, the poet provides an image of the grassy road that also wanted wear. This clicks an image to the reader on the condition that the poet was in and a description of the road. The poet in this piece has tried to involve the reader in getting him or her in getting to understand the situation that he was in.

Metaphors- the metaphor presented in this poem is of life and the uncertainty of the decisions that we make. There are times when situations leave us at confusing states where we have to make decisions. As per the lines of the poem, it took a long time for him to make a decision and even