Wednesday, February 2, 2011

What are the literary devices used in "Passing Breeze" by Rabindranath Tagore?

Tagore's poem "Passing Breeze" contains the following
literary devices:


1. Personification- the giving of human
characteristics to non-human/non-living things.


The
following line contains personification given that light cannot dance (typically, it is
a description given to light, but the fact remains that people dance- not
light.



this
golden light that dances upon the
leaves



2. Metaphor-
comparison between two things not using the words
"like/as".


The following line compares clouds to
boats:



these
idol clouds sailing across the
sky.



3. Hyperbole- an
exaggeration which is not meant to be taken literally.


The
following line contains hyperbolic language:


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And my heart has touched thy
feet.



This is a hyperbole
given ones heart cannot touch another's feet, but the image of it projects a specific
feeling/thought.

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