Answer to Question #196570 in English for Mohlao Mahlakanya

Question

Find two examples of the poet's alliteration and assonance, and quote them in your answer. For each quotation, underline the repeated sections. Then, explain what the sound device is, and what is function may be.

Answer 1

Examples of alliteration in Ezra Pound’s poem “The Seafarer” is in bold

May I for my own self song's truth reckon,

Journey's jargon, how I in harsh days

Hardship endured oft.

Bitter breast-cares have I abided,

The alliteration in the poem above help to provide more subtle phonemic unity.

Example of assonance in the poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe is in bold

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore

The assonance in the poem above help to make the poem more memorable.