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Blitz Babies

Introduction

In the poem Blitz Babies the author uses language to express his intense experiences of war and helps us create a similar idea of war. The Blitz Babies is a poem where children were growing up during the time of war between Nazis and Britain. The Blitz was a period of time where Nazi Germany continued strategic bombing over the United Kingdom during the Second World War. I’m going to examine the poet’s personification, simile, and onomatopoeia.

Onomatopoeia

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Observing the poet’s use of onomatopoeia, I will highlight the following examples. “They did not listen to grandfather’s tales, Only harsh voices of tanks terrified them’’. The poet here makes you think more in depth using onomatopoeia, he/she explains how kids used to listen to their grandfathers tails and stories and that stopped since the Blitz and instead of tails and stories they listen to harsh voices of tanks which terrified them. Another example would be, “They wept not through sleepless nights of the battle”. The poet here explains kids at that time had sleepless night instead of sleeping like the usual. As a last example of the poet using onomatopoeia “Alarmed by widows’ heartening wails.” Women have been informed that their husbands have passed away, which leads to them crying and weeping all day which also could lead to a child getting damaged because the women is exhausted because of the death of her husband and the child will grow up without a father or a mother instead of taking care of her child. Therefore the poet has used onomatopoeia as one of his language tools to prompt the experiences people had have during the Blitz.

Personification

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Looking at the personification examples the author had wrote, these are the main ones I found. “Only harsh voices of tanks”, and in this sentence the author talks about the tanks’ sounds as voices but only humans have voices. This also shows that people where used to the harsh sounds of the tanks and when they heard it they new it was destruction. And in “Loudly the voices of battle will roar” not only that he/she said that the battle has voices but that it also roars and these thing show hoe fierce the battle was and obviously how loud. The last example of personification is “their hearts will still tremble”. Hearts can’t tremble, at least not a lone, so this is showing that they very frustrated and confused and mostly afraid about everything during the harsh events they were living.

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