Saturday, June 5, 2010

What is the onomatopoeia in the poem?

While the most
classic examples ofare words such as "bang" or "woof," in which an
individual word sounds like the concept it signifies, we can also see onomatopoeia in individual
sounds. In the case of "," we can think about how Poe uses sounds in the text to call
to mind the constant crash of the waves and the hiss of the wind. We can hear a bit of the wind
in "chilling and killing" at the end of the forth stanza. Similarly, the head rhyme in
the last two lines of "sepulchre ... sea / ... sounding sea" suggests again the sounds
of the wind and the crash of the waves. You can also look at the s's and
v's in "Can ever dissever my soul from the soul," as well as the
effect of the v's, th's, and the
s in "But we loved with a love that was more than love" and other
lines.

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