Poetic+Devices

=**Poetic Devices**=

//A Black Man Talks of Reaping// is based more on the use imagery

//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 by describing the thunder as flowers. Imagery is used to express Toomer's feelings about the African American experience by comparing it to a storm.