Poetic Elements

Robert Frost

Metaphor

• a figure of speech that is an expression an is used to show something that it does not literally say that one thing is the other

• Music is magic, • pure and clean. • You can hear it,• feel it,• but it can’t be• seen• A melody, • an Opera, • or even fusion• Music is just an amazing• illusion

Symbolism-when you have on thing

represent another

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth.

Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.

Symbolism-subject that stands for something else of greater meaning

I would break the strongest ropes that could hold where never clingsBut I could havethe weakest of all hopesand my curtains Would have two strings

Simile• Comparing two

things using like or as

A Book is like a life,It is full of all adventures.It is also Full of mysteriesMaybe you could goAnd ventureOr maybeIt might be A misadventure

Paradox

something absurd or contradictory

Sometimes I may

tell the truthother times

I might tell a lie

eventually bothwill be told

for all to hear

Alliteration

Using the same letter at the beginning of the word

Elijah Emu

Elijah Emu is and EmuEmu’s are goodWith economyElijah eats fishWhile she showsHer funny EmotesEnergetic Elijah Eats againWith Eliza Emu

Personification

• Making something that doesn’t have human-like features, have them

The dog and the lion

The lion askedThe dogIf he could talkThe dog replied yes and ranThrough the woodsHe spread the word