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Poetry Analysis
The River
By: Derek Walcott
Poetry is a literary work in a good fashion that grabs the reader’s attention and makes the reader able to feel what the poet describes. The River by Derek Walcott is an outstanding literary work that contains intense thoughts which makes it an implicit lyric. ... Derek Walcott mainly talks about a river in the city where he lives. The poem describes the river in the past and the present using several literary devices. ...
In this poem, Derek Walcott describes the river as foul-mouthed, brown-muscled and branzenly drunk. ... Those traits put the river in a picture of a strong and a weak human being. ... Personification was used to emphasize theme, by showing how the river used to be in a good situation but after it was polluted it became in an awful condition.
Approximate Word count = 603
Approximate Pages = 2.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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