ENGL 1F95 Lecture Notes - Assonance, Aeneid, Simile
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Critical analysis of the use of sound effects in. In the second stanza of the silence of women," the speaker describes the context for an older woman"s anger. Further, the assonance in the line voice thrown into a baritone storm" (15), picks up on the suggestion of a dire warning, as the long-o sound in words like thrown" and baritone" give the effect of a lament. This sound effect echoes the sense of the line, in which the image of the baritone storm" is a vehicle in a metaphor describing the overwhelming sound of men"s voices in the world. Rosenberg"s poem suggests that women are never silent, but are rather silenced, which accounts for their increasing rage. Spring is protected by space; pace picks up ( w -sounds), before stopping at mud- ; Assonance ( uh -sounds) and alliteration ( l -sounds) thicken the pace;