Fog wraiths by Mildred Howells essay

There are 5 poetic techniques Howells has used in her poem: Alliteration; Sibilance; Metaphors; Personification and Pathetic fallacy. For alliteration, Howells has used the sentences: Back to the land come the lost at sea., To finger the latch they may not lift, And peer through the glistening window- pane. And To its memory raised among the rest The alliteration in these sentences is: Land and lost, Latch and lift, Peer and pane and Raised and rest. They are alliteration because they all begin with the same letter, for example, raised and rest is R. Alliteration helps you to remember things because the brain remembers things better with repetition. Sibilance is used in these sentences: While wrapped in its shroud, from the soundless deeps and Then in the churchyard each seeks the stone. Sibilance in these sentences is: Shroud and soundless and Seeks and stone Sibilance is when each word begins with S. Sibilance makes something sound sad. Metaphors are found here: Over the weeping grass they drift and here: Till the fog rolls back to the oceans breast the metaphors are: weeping grass, since grass does not weep and oceans breast, since the ocean does not have a breast. Metaphors describe something as if it were something else, and helps you image it in your head. Personification is in these words and phrases: fog creeps and again, weeping grass. It is personification because the fog does not creep and the grass doesnt weep. Personification helps you image non-human objects by using human characteristics. Pathetic fallacy is found in this sentence In from the ocean the white fog creeps The pathetic fallacy is white fog because the weather is setting the tone for the story; it is mysterious and scary. Pathetic fallacy helps you feel what the main character/s is feeling.

The poem is structured in this sequence: Sea-LandLand- Sea, to make the reader think about the tide going in and out. It is structured in an A-B C-D E-F sequence. Overall, I feel that the poem, the fog wraiths, has a sad tone towards it, and makes the reader feel empathetic and sympathetic towards the fog wraiths. I am explaining how Howells wants the reader to feel about the fog wraiths in her poem and which poetic techniques she uses to do this. The poem itself is about ghosts of men who have died or were lost at sea. They cannot go into their houses or to their empty graves because they go in and out with the tide of the sea. My feelings about the wraiths are empathetic towards them, because they cannot rest in peace even though they have died, or live as they used to while the tide rolls out. Other nonsense in order to detect key loggers on my computer.