The sound of poetry? The poetry of sound? Both provide the literature with a melody that connects the brain memory and mental image to colorful diction and meaning. Unlike many other abstract devices found in poetry, poetic sounds are determined by the author and therefore very concrete and purposeful. The best poetry, in my opinion, has been the succinct ones that encourage the mind to wander through the challenges of ambiguous text. In poetry, the rhyme scheme offers a roadmap that sometimes "connects the dots" between unseen parallel images or themes. In "Out, Out" the speaker is somber, yet Robert Frost uses words that create an ironic tone eventually exploring the crass reality of child labor: "The buzz saw snarled and rattled."
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