Who can find the literary devices?
Imagery is simply language that makes you see pictures, so any of the phrases that are considered literary devices are also imagery. Metaphor is a comparison between 2 things without using “like” or “as”–the only metaphor in this one is “the long trick” as instead of saying long life or journey, he’s comparing the experience to a trick. Personification is easy, and it is throughout this poem. It is giving non-human things human characteristics. So, wheel’s don’t kick, therefore, that’s personification. Winds don’t sing, a sea can’t be lonely, the running tide can’t call and so on. Like a whetted knife” is a simile, not a metaphor.
