i have been searching for poems with synaestesia, personification, oxymoron, metaphor, allusion, irony, consonance, and hyperbole. i need poems with these in them, i know what they are but cant find them anywhere
could some one just give me a website or some thing, it would really help thanks so much

Do you need all to occur in one poem, or many?

Here's some of them:

1. Simile--Shakespeare's sonnet "Nothing like the sun"
2. Metaphor--Dickinson "The Woodpecker"
3. Narrative--T. S. Eliot " The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
4. Image--Gerard Manley Hopkins-- "The Windhover"
5. Concrete--David Madison--"A Bridge too Far"
6. Dramatic--Katherine Lee Bates--"To My Country"
7. Onomatatopeia--Edgar Allen Poe--"The Bells"
8. Metaphor--Robert Burns--"John Barleycorn"
9. Hyperbole--John Donne--"Go and Catch a Falling Star"
10. Personification--Alfred Noyes--"The Highwayman"

11. Consonance--Samuel Coleridge--"Kubla Khan"
12. Oxymoron--Lewis Carrol--"My Fancy"
13. Synesthesia--ee cummings--"here is little effie's head"


Les



Post Edited (01-03-05 00:14)

thanks so much!

yw

Les

Synesthesia - hearing colors, tasting sounds - stuff like that? I don't see it in the effie's head one. Please help me out.

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And, I confess I missed the oxymoron (contradiction in terms, like jumbo shrimp) in Carroll's verse. Irony, perhaps? Hyperbole, too?

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The personification in the Highwayman is the musket?

Les, some other examples on that list could also do with replacement, though they're not the figures of speech Freddie is after. (He seems to have been assigned the hard ones).

For simile, I suggest Byron's 'The Destruction of Sennacherib' has more to offer than that Shakespeare sonnet.

Can't see much narrative in Prufrock, compared with, say, Macaulay's 'Horatius' , or Browning's 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin', or Tennyson's 'The Revenge: A Ballad Of The Fleet'.

And there must be innumerable examples of onomatopoeia better than Poe's 'The Bells', which just relies on repeating the word 'bells' ad nauseam.

I don't know how synesthesia can be part of a poem. It's a mode of perception, not a figure of speech or a style of writing.

Ian



Post Edited (01-29-05 17:17)

Speaking of perception, let me mention this word:

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I only bring it up because I have been trying to memorize the word proprioceptive for several days now, and it somehow escapes being linked by my brain's synapses. I have to keep going back to the source to read it again, frustrating. My failing memory keeps thinking it begins with 'peri-something' for an unknown reason.

Back on topic, I think synesth(a)esia could well be called a figure of speech, when used as a 'description of one kind of sense impression by using words that normally describe another'.

The book 'The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat,' by Oliver Sacks, deals with issues of proprioception.

pam

And he kept putting her on?

She obviously went to his head.


Les

i need help finding these words for my poetry note book and to find out what they mean and also a poems example for each one mean

yes

example of synesthesia in Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream :
the eye of man has not heard, the ear of man has not seen ... (Act 4 sc 1)

an example of oxymoron in the same play : that is, hot ice and wondrous strange black snow