Tuesday, December 9, 2014

In "The Snare," the poet uses reptition.what is the effect of the use of repetition in the poem?I hear a sudden cry of pain! There is a rabbit in a...

There are two types of repetition in this poem.  One is
the word "cry".  It ties the poem together, the rabbit is continuing to cry through the
poem. 


The other repetition is the repetition of the first
and last lines of the stanzas.  This adds emotion and immediacy to the poem. When you
are looking for something and you have to shift focus from one area to another --- you
continue your thought.  For example: at the end of the first stanza he says "I cannot
tell from where".  Now he sifts his attention to another place and repeats "I cannot
tell from where".  The second stanza ends with "Making everything afraid" and continues
onto the third stanza as he shows his fear and frantically searches for the rabbit.  His
frustration increases in the fourth stanza with the repetition of "And I cannot find the
place!"  His anxiety and frustration increases with each repetitive
line.

No comments:

Post a Comment

What is the meaning of the 4th stanza of Eliot's Preludes, especially the lines "I am moved by fancies...Infinitely suffering thing".

A century old this year, T.S. Eliot's Preludes raises the curtain on his great modernist masterpieces, The Love...