In Derek Walcott’s poem Midsummer, the tale of a meeting with an elderly storyteller was magnificently described and told using poetic devices. The poem described the mysterious meeting with curious kids awestruck. Derek Walcott demonstrated the importance of this meeting by using iambic pentameter, alliteration, and imagery. Walcott used iambic pentameter throughout his poem. By using iambic pentameter, the unstressed and stressed syllables pull attention to the story, rather than any rhyming. One example of the iambic pentameter was, “With the frenzy of an old snake shedding its skin”. The iambic pentameter gave the poem a more natural rhythm. Alliteration was also used throughout the poem. Such examples are, “snake shedding its skin”
