Sound

Sound is created through rhyme, enjambment, and caesura. Through these devices, a muscial sound is released while reading poetry, adding to its meaning and the way the poem flows. In "Out, Out," Frost uses sound to personify his objects and give the reader a visual perspective of its actions. "Buzz-snaw snarled and rattled" uses consonance to enforce the constonants of the sentence and personify the saw's actions. The "s" sound lets the reader flow through the sentence and draws the attention to the way the saw moved. Similarly in Pope's poem, "A bid alternate passions fall and rise!" also uses consonance to exaggerate the forcefullness and power of the sentence. In Hamlet, Shakespeare uses a different kind of sound device to illuminate the language of his characters.  Ophelia often uses onomonopeia to reveal her feelings of sadness after the loss of her father: " At his heels a stone. O ho!" By using "O ho!" instead of a sentence, the phrase reveals her pain and resonantes with her feelings of regret and sadness. Sounds contribute greatly to the attitudes and language of each character as it gives insight into their feelings while creating a rhythm throughout the words.