Robert Frost Rhetorical Devices

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In the first stanza there is a series of repetition used ¨I was angry with my friend¨ (1) and ¨ I was angry with my foe¨ (3). This put a lot of emphasis on how the poet was angry or angered by his foe. Then you look at the next stanza, the poet uses a lot of metaphor deciding how he was enraged and it would keep growing. In line 5 and 6 he wrote ¨I watered it in fears / [and] night and morning with my tears¨ this is a personification because fears can not water anything and this could be seen as a metaphor to related fears and tears as a fuel to his rage the is growing night and day. Also in line 7 and 8 ¨I sunned it with smiles/ and with soft deceitful wiles¨ is a personification because smiles and wiles can not give trees or plants light

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