Wild Geese Literary Elements

Wild Geese Literary Elements

Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View

Third-person narrative

Form and Meter

A free verse poem

Metaphors and Similes

A simile is used when the speaker says, "The world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese." The simile signifies the importance of acknowledging that the world is moving fast.

Alliteration and Assonance

Alliteration is in the “love what it loves” to signify the importance of loving your body.

Irony

The main paradox is that the speaker concludes that no one should be unhappy under whatever circumstance, which is unrealistic.

Genre

Allegorical poem

Setting

Set in 2004 in a factious gentle, peaceful landscape

Tone

Sanguine, reflective, and informative

Protagonist and Antagonist

The protagonist is the speaker. The antagonists are the people who think they are doomed to suffer.

Major Conflict

There is a disagreement between the speaker and the people who think they are doomed to suffer. According to the speaker, everyone should find a way to be happy.

Climax

The climax comes when the speaker acknowledges that the natural world is the only heaven for whoever thinks life is unfair.

Foreshadowing

The vulnerability of the animal body foreshadows acceptance of human imperfection.

Understatement

There is an understatement when the poet says the wild geese have no freedom.

Allusions

N/A

Metonymy and Synecdoche

The soft animal is a metonymy for the heart.

Personification

N/A

Hyperbole

N/A

Onomatopoeia

N/A

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