Question

What poetic device do you notice in the following lines from “Lake Isle of Innisfree?”

“I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore:
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.”


A. Onomatopoeia
B. Imagery
C. Both A and B
D. Rhetoric

Answer 1

The poetic devices I notice in these lines from "Lake Isle of Innisfree" are C. both A and B.
Onomatopoeia is using words to denote sounds heard somewhere around you - here, the word lapping is onomatopoeic. Imagery is using descriptive words to create vivid images, so that you can imagine the scene as if you are truly there.