Poems (Songs of Ourselves)

Devices and central themes

Winter Song

• Simple concise sentences

• Plosives (Intensify the language and adds musical quality)

• Iambic tetrameter (Rhythmic momentum alludes to the consistency of the speaker’s love)

• Couplets

The Spring

• Plosives, alliteration, sibilance (Evokes the vivid imagery and attitude of spring where everything is renewed)

• Trochee (Gives a metrical spring that evokes the boldness of the warmer weather)

• Anaphora + asyndeton (Gives a list-like structure, conveying that there are no limits in spring’s renewal of life)

• Orderly poem (All of nature slots neatly into place and filled with harmony)

• The shift to the first-person narrative voice grounds the poem in the speaker’s perspective, making the contrast between nature and their emotions more personal and poignant.

• What the animal symbolises + Relation to a theme + Poetic devices

• Each line in the poem begins with a capital letter, further enforcing the idea that spring is the opportunity for new beginnings.

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