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Using Alliteration To Enhance Emotion In Poetry
By Vivian Gilbert Zabel, Mon Dec 26th
Poetry begs for emotion, in the wording by the poet and in themind of the reader. Yet many wonder how to create emotion intheir writing. One way to enhance emotion is to use poeticdevices. Poetic devices, when used with imaginative language, help createthat needed emotion in poetry. Let's look at alliteration andsee how its usage can aid create emotion. "What in the world is alliteration?" the student of poetry asks."It sounds like something that would make me itch or something."
Not at all, but it might tickle your ears. Alliteration,generally, is the repetition of a beginning sound (a constanantbeginning sound usually} that occurs close enough to each otherto catch the eye and ear. Little boy blue, come blow your horn from Mother Goose isan excellent example of alliteration, all those lovely b's closetogether. "Fine and dandy," the student asks, "but where is any emotion inthat?" Just give me time, and I'll get there. Ish, some people are soimpatient. Now if we take some alliteration and mix it together withlanguage portraying the mood or emotion we want, voila! Like gaudily wrapped gathering dust in the back of mymind, memories tease me mercilessly. The lines above invoke a sense of playfulness, maybe
Zdravko ?oli? - "Kad pogleda? me preko ramena"
Razni izvo?a?i - "III Axal Grand Festival"
Sa?a Kova?evi? - "Ornament"
De?ije pesme - "Mi? je dobio grip"
Dr Iggy - "Retro Collection"
Leontina - "Platinum Collection"
Zdravko ?oli? - "Live Collection"
Riblja ?orba - "Live Collection"
?eljko Samard?i - "Live Collection"
a bit ofhappiness, by using the words gaudily wrapped and tease.But they also leave a lingering sense of sadness with the wordsgathering dust. Both emotions, though, are strengthened andjoined with the use of alliteration: gaudily, gifts, gathering;mind, memories, me, mercilessly. Let's look at some other examples. Dull, drab day, you dump piles Of sorrow on seemingly somnolentlife. The emotion created by those two lines is depression or sadness.Again the alliteration makes the emotion stronger. "Okay, I think I'm beginning to get the picture," the studentadmits. Then let's look at one more example, shall we? Gaily, giggling girls cluster together as if birds tweetering onbranches of trees. Here we have happiness showing through the alliteration. Alliteration is just one method, one device, that can be used toenhance emotion in our writing. We can read, learn, and practiceuntil we have improved that imagery. About the author:Vivian Gilbert Zabel taught English, composition, and creativewriting for twenty-five years, honing her skills as she studiedand taught. She is a author onWriters (http://www.Writing.Com/ ), and her portfolio ishttp://www.Writing.Com/authors/vzabel. Her books, Hidden Liesand Other Stories and Walking the Earth, can be foundthrough Barnes and Noble or Amazon.com.
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