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The Prodigal
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Summary of the poetic techniques and themes in Elizabeth Bishop's "The Prodigal".
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elizabeth bishop
the prodigal
lc poetry
poetry
senior cycle
english
junior certificate
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The Prodigal
Alliteration
"Light-lashed"
"faint forked"
personification
"self-righteous"
"the first star came to warn"
biblical allusion
"The Prodigal"
"safe and companionable as in the Ark"
"a pacing aureole"
sensuous imagery
"plastered halfway up with glass-smooth dung"
"the sunrise glazed the barnyard mud with red: the burning puddles seemed to reassure"
"a slimy board"
"The brown enormous odor"
onomatopoeia
"overhanging clouds of hay"
theme
redemption
the strength of the human spirit
tone
bleak &depressing in 1st stanza
becomes cautiously optimistic in the 2nd stanza
begins to change at the word "But"
metaphor
The Prodigal is a metaphor for an alcoholic, specifically the poet herself.
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