Figures of Speech
Poets use different figures of speech to convey the message of their works. Some poets use metaphors or similes to baffle the mind and force the body to feel and see the images created while others use paradox, hyperboles, or puns to create the same effect. A good poem should involve all the senses and make the mind work to find meaning. William Blake uses metaphors to make the mind work overtime to find multiple meanings in his work "To See a World in a Grain of Sand", while Chidiock Tichborne uses paradox to baffle the mind and reiterate the single meaning in his work "Elegy, Written With His Own Hand Before His Execution".
"To See a World in a Grain of Sand" by William Blake is a short poem that is filled with deep meaning. Through the use of metaphors and word choice the work seems lengthy to the mind but short to the eye. A metaphor is "a statement that one thing is something else, but in a literal sense it is not" (Kennedy 817). A metaphor is filled......
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