How does Ee Tiang Hong convey his feeling about the Bougainvillea in ‘To a shrub’
The sight poem “To a shrub” by Ee Tiang Hong is about a Bougainvillea. Ee draws attention to the grace of the flower describing the Bougainvillea; how all the features of the Bougainvillea are all graceful and tirelessly beautiful. Ee uses, poetic techniques; Alliterations and repetition are used for emphasis. Also personifications, metaphor were used to give the Bougainvillea characteristics bringing the poem to life.
Throughout the poem personifications were used to characterize the Bougainvillea as a graceful woman. This helps the reader to visualize the Bougainvillea clearly. For example Ee uses the personification “droop your slender arms” which makes the …show more content…
For example in the opening stanza “Like a spray of cool fireworks in mid-air” is a simile used to describe the Bougainvillea shrub. The simile triggers an image of blazing and shining fireworks. For readers who have never seen Bougainvillea will be able to portray a picture of blazing, colorful flowers that becomes the central attention with its beauty. Ee uses the simile so that fireworks become a reminiscent of Bougainvillea. “As in a wild dream you flaunt in the heat of sun and sand” in the last stanza is a simile proposing an idea that the beauty of the Bougainvillea is hypnotic. In the poem the simile is used to dramatize on the beauty of the Bougainvillea which is attractive enough to seduce, hypnotize and flaunt the people who stare at it. Ee uses similes to make the images clearer and easier to …show more content…
For example in stanza 2 “Cluster and conceal fierce thorns” contains two verbs starting with the letter “C”. Alliterations supply a rippling sound effect. In this case the “C” is a hard c pronunciation which is like a sharp “k” sound. The first letter “C” gives the words a sturdy character that supports the following “fierce thorn”. Thus the meaning of “fierce thorn” is emphasized. In “Your crepelike blossoms softer than silk” and “In this sweltering shade” the letter “S” plays the same role as “Cluster”’s “C”. The “S” creates a soft and smooth mood. Ee does this to create a warm and welcoming atmosphere. More than one alliterations were used so that the moods could transition from one to another. In this poem there were no onomatopoeias however the alliterations aroused an onomatopoeic effect doubling the meaning through the sound of the words. In addition to emphasis of the meaning alliteration was also used to create rhyme so that the poem is more
The sight poem “To a shrub” by Ee Tiang Hong is about a Bougainvillea. Ee draws attention to the grace of the flower describing the Bougainvillea; how all the features of the Bougainvillea are all graceful and tirelessly beautiful. Ee uses, poetic techniques; Alliterations and repetition are used for emphasis. Also personifications, metaphor were used to give the Bougainvillea characteristics bringing the poem to life.
Throughout the poem personifications were used to characterize the Bougainvillea as a graceful woman. This helps the reader to visualize the Bougainvillea clearly. For example Ee uses the personification “droop your slender arms” which makes the …show more content…
For example in the opening stanza “Like a spray of cool fireworks in mid-air” is a simile used to describe the Bougainvillea shrub. The simile triggers an image of blazing and shining fireworks. For readers who have never seen Bougainvillea will be able to portray a picture of blazing, colorful flowers that becomes the central attention with its beauty. Ee uses the simile so that fireworks become a reminiscent of Bougainvillea. “As in a wild dream you flaunt in the heat of sun and sand” in the last stanza is a simile proposing an idea that the beauty of the Bougainvillea is hypnotic. In the poem the simile is used to dramatize on the beauty of the Bougainvillea which is attractive enough to seduce, hypnotize and flaunt the people who stare at it. Ee uses similes to make the images clearer and easier to …show more content…
For example in stanza 2 “Cluster and conceal fierce thorns” contains two verbs starting with the letter “C”. Alliterations supply a rippling sound effect. In this case the “C” is a hard c pronunciation which is like a sharp “k” sound. The first letter “C” gives the words a sturdy character that supports the following “fierce thorn”. Thus the meaning of “fierce thorn” is emphasized. In “Your crepelike blossoms softer than silk” and “In this sweltering shade” the letter “S” plays the same role as “Cluster”’s “C”. The “S” creates a soft and smooth mood. Ee does this to create a warm and welcoming atmosphere. More than one alliterations were used so that the moods could transition from one to another. In this poem there were no onomatopoeias however the alliterations aroused an onomatopoeic effect doubling the meaning through the sound of the words. In addition to emphasis of the meaning alliteration was also used to create rhyme so that the poem is more