11th Eng A Photograph, Poetic Devices, Annotations, vocabulary, rhyme scheme
Poem-1 A Photograph by Shirley Toulson ANNOTATIONS/ VOCABULARY 1 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...
