Answer to Question #204072 in English for Noxolo Sibiya

Question

Select a poem and copy the poem into your assignment identify examples of assonance, alliteration,metaphor,simile and personification

Answer 1

The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee

BY N. SCOTT MOMADAY

I am a feather on the bright sky

I am the blue horse that runs in the plain

I am the fish that rolls, shining, in the water

I am the shadow that follows a child

I am the evening light, the lustre of meadows

I am an eagle playing with the wind

I am a cluster of bright beads

I am the farthest star

I am the cold of dawn

I am the roaring of the rain

I am the glitter on the crust of the snow

I am the long track of the moon in a lake

I am a flame of four colors

I am a deer standing away in the dusk

I am a field of sumac and the pomme blanche

I am an angle of geese in the winter sky

I am the hunger of a young wolf

I am the whole dream of these things

You see, I am alive, I am alive

I stand in good relation to the earth

I stand in good relation to the gods

I stand in good relation to all that is beautiful

I stand in good relation to the daughter of Tsen-tainte

You see, I am alive, I am alive

N. Scott Momaday, “The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee” from In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991. Copyright ©1991 by N. Scott Momaday. Reprinted with the permission of the author and St. Martin’s Press, LLC.

use of assonance

for example, "I am a cluster of bright" has been used to improve musicality of the poem.

use of alliteration

"roaring of the rain" and flame of flour" has been used in the above piece.

metaphor.

" I stand in good relation to the daughter.." has been used to demonstrate the state of their relationship without fully revealing the extend of their 'good' relationship.

use of simile

the persona in the above poem likens themselves to a flame of four colors.

personification

"I am an eagle playing with the wind". In this line, an eagle is depicted to have a human ability of playing with the wind.