Poetic Devices (Contrast

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Poetic Devices(Contrast Repetition )

• Presented by
• Ranim Saleem
• Rania Al-Outaiby
• Seham Al-Ofai
• Aisha Al-Selmi
• Ghadeer Al-Owais

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Why do we study structural devices?

• To analyze how a poem is structured through
  different techniques which connect or generate
  images.

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Contrast

• Contrast is closely a technique that arranges
  pictures with strikingly opposing meanings.
• Example He looks tough but he is kind-hearted.
• contrast can be stated or implied

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Child by Sylvia Plath

• Our clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful
  thing.
• I want to fill it with color and ducks
• The zoo of the new
• Whose name you meditate
• April snowdrop, Indian pipe, Little
• Stalk without wrinkle,
• Pool in which images
• Should be grand and classical
• Not this troublous
• Wringing of hands,
• This dark Ceiling without a star.

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Illustration of Child

• The poet contrasts happy childhood
• (color and ducks)
• to unhappy adulthood( this troublous wringing
  of hands)
• The poet portrays two sides to her
  personality.Here she delights in the beauty of a
  young life(I want to fill it with color and
  ducks)
• But later she feels horror
• (troublous wringing of hands)
• The poet contrasts two types of agingwrinkle
  means to age poorly, classical means to age
  well.

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Repetition

• Repetition of a sound, syllable, word, phrase,
  line, stanza, or metrical pattern is a basic
  unifying device in poetry.
• Poets often repeat a single word or a whole
  stanza to emphasize a particular idea. Repetition
  is found in poetry which is aiming at special
  musical effects or when a poet wants the reader
  to pay a very close attention to something.

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

• Its the longest major poem by the English poet
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge written in 1797.
• Look at the repetition of the word water
• Water,water everywhere
• And all the boards did shrink
• Water,water everywhere
• Nor any drop to drink

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• The poet makes us feel how vast the ocean is by
  repeating the word water over and over again.
• At the same time, it helps the reader to
  understand how thirsty the sailors are. For them
  the water is something that is everywhere and at
  the same moment farfetched.
• Repetition. introduces variations on the theme
  of water.
• The End