G.5+Poetic+Devices

=**Poetic Devices**=



//A Black Man Talks of Reaping// is based more on the use imagery to express the author's feelings about the African American experience as a slave having to farm for the white men who owned them. Imagery is the us of descriptive language that appeals to the senses. "I have sown beside all waters in my day. I planted deep.." and "I scattered seed enough to plant the land in rows from Canada to Mexico" That most of the black race felt hopeless and angry that they had to live day by day in drudgery. They were given little compared to what they should have gotten. "but for my reaping only what the hand can hold at once is all that I can show." //Storm Ending// contains figures of speech such as similes. A simile in this poem is "Dripping rain **like** golden honey-". Personification is also used in the lines, "Thunder **blossoms** gorgeously above our heads", "**Bitten** by the sun", "**Bleeding** rain", "And the sweet earth **flying** from the thunder". Toomer develops an extended metaphor throughout the whole poem by describing the thunder as flowers. Imagery is used to express Toomer's feelings about the ending of slavery.