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Language and Literature Assignment. Analyse 'The Stolen Child' By W.B Yeats.
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Language and Literature Assignment. Analyse 'The Stolen Child' By W.B Yeats Shell Woodward Lecturer Sarah Mills The aim of this essay is to analyse W.B Yeat's poem, 'The Stolen Child', by concentrating on his use of literary devices. By carefully analysing the features of language he has used to create the poem I aim to discover how their effects contribute to the overall meaning. The literary devices I will be concentrating on the most shall be metaphor, metonymy and sound patterning. Metaphor & Metonymy W.B Yeats has used an abundance of figurative language throughout the poem. The most prominent is his use of both metaphor and metonymy in the refrain that is repeated four times at the end of each stanza (changing slightly in the final stanza). The refrain consists of four lines but it is in the fourth line, written in iambic heptameter, that contains the most significant...
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