11th Eng A Photograph, Poetic Devices, Annotations, vocabulary, rhyme scheme
Poem-1 A Photograph by Shirley Toulson
1- Photograph- a perboard, or photograph
2-Paddling- walking with bare feet in shallow water
3- Still- motionless
4- Transient - momentary, temporary
5- Terribly Transient feet - human life is momentary, short lived
6- Snapshot - Photograph
7- Wry- to feel disappointed due to the Loss of beloved one
8- Of this circumstances - the present situation of poetess without her mother
9-Its Silence silences - the intensity of the loss has left the poetess speechless
10- There is nothing to say at all - The loss is too big to say anything
Poetic devices / Figure Of speech
1-Rhyming Scheme - Free Verse, Blank verse
Stood still, Through their,My mother,Terribly Transient, Silence silences
3- Transferred Epithet - Expressing the quality of human beings - Terribly Transient feet, her barred face, identity mask 4
-Oxymoron- laboured ease
5-Tone- Sadness, disappointed
6.Theme - Loss, memory and the transient of life
7-Metaphor - (indirect comparison between between two )
She enters the thickness, machine startup, it is engine of her family, showing barred face, identity mask
7.Personification (human qualities highlighting )
Whole tree temple and thrills
8.Simile (comparison between two) sleek as lizard
9-Irony-Ironically mother is no more to see her happy and at the same time the poet does not have her mother to make the poet herself happy.
1o. Mood of Poem- Dysphoric poem,
very unhappy, uneasy, or dissatisfied
A Photograph
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