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Atlantis: A Lost sonnet
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Tone
"I mean, I said to myself, the world was small then. Surely a great city must have been missed?
I miss our old city..." (lines 5-7)
"...what is gone is gone forever and never found it. And so, in the best traditions of where we come from, they gave their sorrow a name and drowned in it." (lines 13-17)
Literary Devices in "Atlantis"
Metaphors
-"Our old city" (line 7)
Motif - a reoccurring subject, theme, or idea, etc. especially in a literary, artistic or musical work
Tone - attitude of the author toward the subject or the audience
Rhetorical Question - a question asked specifically for the effect or to lay emphasis on some point discussed when no real answer is expected
Rhetorical Questions
Metaphor - a figure of speech where two unlike things are compared because they share some characteritics
How on earth did it happen, I used to wonder that a whole city - arches, pillars, colonnades, not to mention vehicles and animals - had all one fine day gone under?
(lines 1-4)
Themes
-Drowning
"Where we come from they gave their sorrow a name, and drowned in it."
(Lines 14-17)
-Nostalgia
"I miss our old city" (line 7)
"You and I meeting under fanlights..."
(line 6)
Symbolism pt. 2
Symbolism
Background
About the Author
"white pepper, white pudding, you and I meeting under fanlights and low skies to go home in it"
(lines 8-9)
In Conclusion...
Atlantis: A Lost sonnet
In "Atlantis: A Lost Sonnet" Eavan Boland uses literary devices to illustrate and express her ideas about the decline of culture. Boland uses literary devices like metaphors in order to make a comparison between two things. In addition to that she uses the mood and tone of the piece to elicit an emotional response from the reader.