Why are poems different from short stories?
Five literary devices used in poems that differentiate them:
1.A trope: a word or expression used in a figurative sense, has meaning that is different from its literal meaning, there are many different types of tropes like hyperbole, irony, litotes, metaphor, metonymy, oxymoron, personification, pun, rhetorical question, simile, synecdoche, and zeugma.
I wandered lonely as a cloud by William Wordsworth
I WANDERED lonely as a cloud Similie
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way, Hyperbole
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay: 10
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they personification
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood, 20
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
2.Metrics: The reason behind a poems rhyme and rhythm, made of iambic pentameter. This includes rhyme scheme, metric feet, metric lines (stresses), rythm
3. Sonics: Are related to the sound of a poem
4. Forms: Forms are the reason poetry is written in stanzas.
5. Poems don't have to rhyme they only have to have contain some of the above literary devices that distinguish it from a short story or essay.
