The+Tropics+in+New+York-Poetic+Devices

In this poem the author uses many types of literary devices. For example. he uses metaphors "And dewy dawns, and mystical blue skies, In benediction over nun-like hills". Its like the skies is the priest giving benedictoin over all the hills. Another device he uses is imagery to mainly describe the whole story. For exanmple, "Bananas ripe and green, and ginger-root, Cocoa in pods and alligator pears, And tangerines and mangoes and grape fruit, Fit for the highest prize at parish fairs". This describes his memories in jamaica and is one of the only things comforting to him now livng in New York. These devices used in the story really help you to visualize what is going on in the story and make you feel like our a part of it in the sense. Also it makes the story more enjoyable to read and the peom easier to understand. Last it helps make the reader connect more to the story in whats going on.