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CSEC English B Devices in Poems

This document provides summaries of 18 poems from various regions: - It describes the themes, symbols, rhetorical devices, and literary techniques used in each poem, including allusion, metaphor, personification, repetition, and contrast. - The poems cover topics such as nature, politics, war, religion, and the human experience from different cultural perspectives. - Literary devices like simile, rhyme, punctuation imagery, and broken syntax are used to explore complex ideas in concise yet impactful ways.

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CSEC English B Devices in Poems

This document provides summaries of 18 poems from various regions: - It describes the themes, symbols, rhetorical devices, and literary techniques used in each poem, including allusion, metaphor, personification, repetition, and contrast. - The poems cover topics such as nature, politics, war, religion, and the human experience from different cultural perspectives. - Literary devices like simile, rhyme, punctuation imagery, and broken syntax are used to explore complex ideas in concise yet impactful ways.

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  • FORGIVE MY GUILT by Robert P. Tristram Coffin: Reflects on the themes of guilt and repentance.
  • DREAMING BLACK BOY by James Berry: Discusses themes of hope and aspiration against racial adversity.
  • OL' HIGUE by Mark McWatt (A Lullaby): Explores the poem’s use of Creole and metaphor in retelling Caribbean folklore.
  • THIS IS THE DARK TIME, MY LOVE by Martin Carter: Explores the themes of oppression and resilience in a colonial context.
  • GOD'S GRANDEUR by Gerard Manley Hopkins (Italian sonnet): Reviews the religious themes and use of language to convey divine magnificence.
  • SOUTH by Edward Kamau Braithwaite: Focuses on the idyllic and persuasive imagery of a return to roots.
  • WEST INDIES, USA by Stewart Brown: Analyzes the poem discussing the metaphorical representation of tourism in the Caribbean.
  • LE LOUP GAROU by Derek Walcott (Italian sonnet): Examines the theme of transformation and tradition using a cultural metaphor.
  • IT IS THE CONSTANT IMAGE OF YOUR FACE by Dennis Brutus: Analyzes internal conflict and strained relationships in a socio-political context.
  • A CONTEMPLATION UPON FLOWERS by Henry King: Analyzes the flower metaphor exploring themes of humility and mortality.
  • TEST MATCH, SABINA PARK by Stewart Brown: Discusses the metaphorical and literal interpretations of a cricket match.
  • SONNET COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE by William Wordsworth: Examines the awe of nature and manmade marvels at dawn.
  • IF by Rudyard Kipling: Describes the virtues of resilience and integrity.
  • A STONE'S THROW by Elma Mitchell: Reflects on themes of judgment and hypocrisy.
  • ON SEEING ENGLAND FOR THE FIRST TIME by Jamaica Kincaid: Explores colonial influence and identity conflict.
  • TO AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG by A.E. Housman (ballad): Considers the celebration and pathos of fleeting glory.
  • EPITAPH by Dennis Scott: Explores themes of memory and legacy.
  • THEME FOR ENGLISH B by Langston Hughes: Discusses racial identity and human universality.
  • ORCHIDS by Hazel Simmons-McDonald: Reflects on beauty and transience using metaphor.
  • ONCE UPON A TIME by Gabriel Okara: Discusses sincerity and loss of innocence over time.
  • THE WOMAN SPEAKS TO THE MAN WHO HAS EMPLOYED HER SON by Lorna Goodison: Examines themes of economic struggle and maternal concern.
  • DULCE ET DECORUM EST by Wilfred Owen: Presents a gritty, realistic view of war versus its perceived glory.

WEST INDIES, USA by Stewart Brown

The islands seem like dice tossed on a casinos baize


The shattered innards of a TV set thats fallen off the back of a lorry

OL HIGUE by Mark McWatt (allusion dramatic monologue)


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Rhetorical questions
Use of Creole

LE LOUPGAROU by Derek Walcott (Italian sonnet)


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A curious tale that threaded through the town through graying women sewing
under eaves
Christian witches

GODS GRANDEUR by Gerard Manley Hopkins (English sonnet)


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Charged (pun) charged like electricity; charged with responsibility


Bent (pun) literally round world; morally bent
Like the shining from shook foil

DREAMING BLACK BOY by James Berry


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Repetition of I wish to show that he can only hope and dream of a better,
unlikely future; he is powerless
Choice of speaker

SOUTH by Edward Kamau Brathwaite


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Symbol river and ocean


Alliteration sharp slanting sleet; bright beaches; sea shells shift; tepid taste
Gulls and white sails (of sailboats) contrasting nature and man-made
equipment

FORGIVE MY GUILT by Robert P. Tristram Coffin


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Contrast dignity of birds and cowardice of the boy; natures beauty and
sorrow and pain caused by the boy
Like two sorrowful high flutes can no longer fly but sing only sad songs

IT IS THE CONSTANT IMAGE OF YOUR FACE by Dennis Brutus


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Personification of the country (apartheid South Africa)


Oxymoron hearts treachery

THIS IS THE DARK TIME, MY LOVE by Martin Carter


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Metaphor all round the land brown beetles crawl about


festival of guns, season of oppression, carnival of misery

TO AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG by A.E. Housman (ballad)


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Repetition of shoulder high happiness and life quickly changed to sadness


and death
Symbols of laurel (winner) and rose (beauty)

TEST MATCH, SABINA PARK by Stewart Brown


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Puns boycott and amiss


Hyperbole of monsoon season

EPITAPH by Dennis Scott


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Pun clement (nice weather and merciful people) and brutal sentences
(sentence to death and sentence made of words)
Extended simile or punctuation imagery of brutal sentences and
apostrophe to pain; apostrophe shows physical shape, omission and
possession

SONNET COMPOSED UPON WESTMINISTER BRIDGE by William Wordsworth (Italian


sonnet)
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Personification (city now doth like a garment wear the beauty of the
morning, river glideth at his own sweet will, the very houses seem
asleep)
Metaphor and all that mighty heart is lying still

A STONES THROW by Elma Mitchell


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Allusion John Chapter 8


Repetition of eyes

THEME FOR ENGLISH B by Langston Hughes


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Symbolism this college on the hill above Harlem; I take the elevator up
to my room
Broken syntax mid-line breaks and run-on sentences
Repetition I/you/me

A CONTEMPLATION UPON FLOWERS by Henry King


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Personification
Metaphor life compared to the seasons e.g. I would have it ever spring,
my fate would know no winter
Pun beds of earth (soil and grave)

THE WOMAN SPEAKS TO THE MAN WHO HAS EMPLOYED HER SON by Lorna
Goodison

Contrast talk of natural happenings of a growing child in her womb then of


machine guns and death
Allusion hot and exploding death if he asks for bread Matthew 7:9;
Absalom 2 Samuel 18; Judas Iscariot, thief on the cross

ORCHIDS by Hazel Simmons-McDonald


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Simile Blossoms were full blown like polished poems


Metaphor Press them between pages of memory

ONCE UPON A TIME by Gabriel Okara


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Metaphor ice-block-cold eyes


Simile wear many faces like dresses
Simile my teeth like a snakes bare fangs

DULCE ET DECORUM EST by Wilfred Owen


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Similes like old beggars under sacks, his hanging face like a devils sick
of sin, obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Contrast between the old lie and the truth
Regular rhyme scene; mid-line breaks; run-on lines

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