Thursday, 29 August 2019

Barren Harvest (Structure, figure of speech, themes)

Structure- The structure of the poem is not uniform. The poem consist of five stanzas. In each stanza first word is aligned towards the left and rest of the stanza is towards right and it has no rhyme scheme.



Figure of speech- Alliteration
For eg- "better to be barren than to be"


Theme- The main theme in this poem is the pain and suffering of a mother whose son is in army. A mother is always in agony when her son is far away from her and his life is so uncertain. Also the love a mother has towards her son can be another theme.   

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