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    The poem "Sons of the Open Road" by Walt Whitman uses various figures of speech to describe traveling freely. It uses repetition of phrases like "I carry them with me wherever I go" and "good fortune" to emphasize the poet's independence. It also uses paradox to describe burdens as "delicious" and personification to portray the "song of the road." Through these literary devices, the poem celebrates wandering without constraints or criticism.

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    STD: XII

    Poem : SONS OF THE OPEN ROAD


    BY : Walt Whitman
    Figures of speech:
    1) The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.......
    Alliteration - Sound of letter ‘l’ is repeated.

    2) Henceforth I ask not good- fortune, I myself am good- fortune......


    Repetition - Word ‘good –fortune’ is repeated.

    3) I carry them, men and women, I carry them with me wherever I


    go..........
    Repetition - Words 'Carry them’ are repeated.
    4) Still here I carry my old delicious burdens.....
    a) Paradox- Delicious and burden express opposite meaning.
    b) Transferred Ephithet ---- the adjective delicious is transferred
    from
    food to the burdens.
    5) Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous
    criticism....................
    Tautology - ‘Complaint and Querulous’ expresses same meanings.
    6) Still here........burdens –
    Metaphor - Old sweet memories are indirectly compared to
    something delicious.
    7) Henceforth I....need no more –
    Climax -Words are arranged in their ascending order of importance
    8) Querulous Criticism –
    Alliteration- Sound ‘k’ is repeated.
    9) Strong and content I travel the open road. –
    Inversion- The words are not in a correct prose order. The correct
    prose
    order is – I travel the open road strong and content.
    10) I am fill’d with them, and I will fill them in return –
    Repetition- The word ‘fill’ is repeated.

    11) Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. –


    Inversion- The words are not in a correct prose order. The correct prose
    order is – I take to the open road afoot and light hearted.
    12) Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms. –
    Climax- Ideas are arranged is ascending order.
    13) Song of the road -
    Personification-Non-living object road is shown singing.
    14) Song of the Open Road –
    Metaphor-
    15) I carry my old delicious burdens –
    Paradox-Burdens are described as delicious. It is absurd.
    A burden cannot be delicious. The poet has used this combination of
    words to express that he has many sweet memories of the people and
    places which he would like to remember forever.

    PREPARED BY : PRAMOD D. POGALE


    Vidya Niketan Jr. College, Chandrapur.

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