Stylistic devises in Acquainted with the Nights Leda and the Swan

He looks at the moon, which symbolically represents the clock. The dark scenes in the poems represent loneliness and depression. The speaker uses rhythmic sounds “bye”, “night”, “light”, “height”, “right”, and “sky” to emphasize the state of his loneliness. In Leda and Swan, a big white blood knocks a girl off the balance. The bird pins on the ground caressing her thighs. The moon is the metaphor for the clock. Typically, the speaker suggests that the moon is the natural clock he can use to tell the time. The moon represents the brightest moments of the poem. The speaker is depressed but the moon tends to assure him that things will be good in future. He has walked past the city lights but the moon is still illuminating his path.

The swan represents the Greek god called Zeus. Despite this swan being a symbol of god, it has animal features thus the synecdoche. The swan has “great wing”, “dark webs”, “feathered glory”, and “brute blood”. The “indifferent beak” has been personified in the sense that it has human emotions. Lena and the Swan is figuratively a depiction of violent sexual experience between a bird and a woman (Lloyd 47). These sounds may suggest loneness and some feelings of depression but they are important since they give the poem the beat. The poem is rhythmically arranged because of the sounds from these words. This poem also has rhythmic repletion at the end of the lines. “Walked out in rain- and back in the rain” is an example of repetition with sounding effect.