As the world evolves over the years people get new ideas, new theories, and develops a new way of thinking. Taking something so simple and elaborating on it making it sophisticated. In the Poem "School Children", W.H Auden tries to emphasize to the readers that a simple playground where inhabits their fun filled activities is actually a prison. Here I will be explaining why the poem "School Children" is actually good. For a short poem Auden packs a lot of information that he sends out to the reader making his point straight and clear. As a little boy that sees his surroundings as a prison he uses many poetic devices to prove or enhance his point. One of the variations used in this poem is a "simile" A simile is a figure of speech that, like metaphor, compares unlike things in order to describe something. Similes do not state that something is another thing, however.
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English: W. H. Auden Category:W.H. Auden
English: Photo of W. H. Auden, 1970, taken by me.Instead, they compare using the word "like" or "as."On the very first line it says "Here are all the captivities; the cells are AS real. He is emphasizing that all the "prisoners" which is children are really living in a real prison environment.
On the closing statement of the 2nd paragraph it stated, "The bars of love are so strong, their conspiracies weak like the vows of drunkards" . What this verse is trying to do is compare the term the children's wrongful act to the words of a drunkardAnother device being portrayed is Imagery. Imagery is the use of words to create a picture in the mind of the reader. As the author put the readers through a stance where can we actually picture the school being a prison, with detailed descriptions on the first paragraph. 3rd paragraph "indeed their strangeness is difficult to...