Task One
Analyzing Figurative Language
“The Bells” is a poem that was written by Edgar Allen Poe and was not published until after his death. The tone of this poem goes from happy and joyous to fear and death. Several elements are used throughout this poem such as assonances, personifications, and onomatopoeias.
Assonances is the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible. In “The Bells,” there are several examples. In Stanza 1 Line 3, Poe refers to silver bells as “merriment their melody foretells”. In Stanza 2 Line 6, he refers to golden bells as “molten-golden notes”. In Stanza 3 Line 15, he refers to brass bells as “pale-faced” In Stanza Line
Analyzing Figurative Language
“The Bells” is a poem that was written by Edgar Allen Poe and was not published until after his death. The tone of this poem goes from happy and joyous to fear and death. Several elements are used throughout this poem such as assonances, personifications, and onomatopoeias.
Assonances is the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible. In “The Bells,” there are several examples. In Stanza 1 Line 3, Poe refers to silver bells as “merriment their melody foretells”. In Stanza 2 Line 6, he refers to golden bells as “molten-golden notes”. In Stanza 3 Line 15, he refers to brass bells as “pale-faced” In Stanza Line