1. Poetic Devices

2. Poetic devices

3. Main focus
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Imagery
repetition

4. Quiz 1
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5. My mother at
Sixty-six by
Kamala Das
• My Mother at Sixty-Six :
Driving from my parent’s
home to Cochin last Friday
morning, I saw my mother,
beside me,
doze, open mouthed, her face
ashen like that
of a corpse and realized with pain
that she was as old as she
looked but soon
put that thought away, and
looked out at Young

6. Poem
Continuation…
Trees sprinting, the merry children spilling
out of their homes, but after the airport’s
security check, standing a few yards
away, I looked again at her, wan, pale
as a late winter’s moon and felt that old
familiar ache, my childhood’s fear,
but all I said was, see you soon, Amma,
all I did was smile and smile and
smile......

7. Poetic devices
found in the
poem
Simile
Metaphor
Repetition
Personification
Imagery

8. Simile
• The comparison of one thing with another
thing of a different kind, used to make a
description more emphatic or vivid
• Uses as or like
• Lines 5-7 ‘face ashen like a corpse”
• Line 16 ‘as a late winter’s moon.’

9. metaphor
A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical
effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning
another. It may provide (or obscure) clarity or
identify hidden similarities between two ideas.
Direct comparison
Line 12 “children spilling’

10. repetition
Repetition is a literary device that
involves using the same word or
phrase over and over again in a
piece of writing or speech.
Line 19-20 ‘smile, smile, smile’

11. personification
the attribution of a
personal nature or
human characteristics
to something non-
human, or the
representation of an
abstract quality in
human form.
Giving human
qualities to things
that are not human.
Line 12 ‘trees
sprinting’

12. Imagery
• visual images collectively.
• The poem uses imagery of youth and
death.
oLine 11-12 ‘young trees and merry
children’ =youth
oLine 6-7 ‘like that of a corpse’ =death

13. Quiz 2
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