Question

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"LXV [Once, I knew a fine song]" by Stephen Crane

Once, I knew a fine song,
-It is true, believe me,—
It was all of birds,
And I held them in a basket,
When I opened the wicket,
Heavens! They all flew away.
I cried, "Come back, little thoughts!"
But they only laughed.
They flew on
Until they were as sand
Thrown between me and the sky.


Excerpt from "Mother and Poet" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Dead ! One of them shot by the sea in the east,
And one of them shot in the west by the sea.
Dead! both my boys! When you sit at the feast
And are wanting a great song for Italy free,
Let none look at me !
Yet I was a poetess only last year,
And good at my art, for a woman, men said;
But this woman, this, who is agonized here,
The east sea and west sea rhyme on in her head
Forever instead.

Question:
Both of the poems use which of the following devices, to what purpose?

A. caesura to create rhythm
B. anaphora to create consistency
C. alliteration to create playfulness
D. parallel structure to create irony
E. enjambment to create cause and effect


PLEASE ANSWER

Answer 1

For "LXV [Once, I knew a fine song]" by Stephen Crane, the poem uses enjambment to create cause and effect. The use of enjambment between lines contributes to the flow of the poem, where each line continues the thought of the previous line, leading to the cause and effect relationship between the speaker's action of opening the wicket and the birds flying away.

For "Mother and Poet" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the poem uses parallel structure to create irony. The parallel structure of the repeated phrase "Dead! both my boys!" emphasizes the speaker's grief and loss, while also highlighting the irony that the speaker, who was once a skilled poet, cannot find the words to express her pain.

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