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By William Shakespeare
Poetry and the written language can preserve and give life to anything.
Ode
form of poetry such as sonnet or elegy
often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter
lyrical poem in the form of an address to a particular subject
Three Types of Odes
Pindar Ode, Horatian Ode, Irregular Ode
Horatian ode
Devoted to praising a person, animal, or object
Metonymy
figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of
something else with which it is closely associated
England decides to keep check on immigration
Let me give you a hand.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines
Other Literary Devices
Metaphor
Line 1: Shall I compare thee to a summers day?
Line 4: And summer's lease hath all too short a date
Personification
Lines 5-6: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion
dimm'd
Lines 9-12
Metaphor: line 9: But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Personification: line 11: Nor shall Death brag thou wanderst in his shade
Other Literary Devices Cont.
Meter
Regular iambic pentameter
Lines 9-10: But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st
"Metonymy Examples and Definition." Literary Devices. N.p., 30 Oct. 2015. Web.
20 Mar. 2017.