Senna Jawa
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Let's point to striking examples of using devices in poems on Literotica. Here is one from Back Door Baby by Judo. The first line of the poem, repeated througout the poem as the first line of the refrain:
Back door, back to back door, baby
sounds like knocking on the door, is a nice example of onomatopoeia (it includes an alliteration too). Furthermore, the usage of this device is well integrated here into the poem. First, locally, because we have the knocking sound and the line features the door. Then globally, the device creates an image of a lover coming to an apartment (or house), still standing outside, at the back door, near the washing machine or kitchen, and making his demands, knocking on the door. At the same time the main image (sexual) is present as well, in parallel. Super!
Indeed, in many poems even one image has problems, images often make no sense. Here we have a main one and another gently induced by a poetic device, and they cooperate, getting an enhanced effect.
(It goes also without saying that this first line has the kind of rock'n'roll movement, U know... Well, that was the original pre-Prestley meaning of the rock'n'roll phrase anyway).
Regards,
Back door, back to back door, baby
sounds like knocking on the door, is a nice example of onomatopoeia (it includes an alliteration too). Furthermore, the usage of this device is well integrated here into the poem. First, locally, because we have the knocking sound and the line features the door. Then globally, the device creates an image of a lover coming to an apartment (or house), still standing outside, at the back door, near the washing machine or kitchen, and making his demands, knocking on the door. At the same time the main image (sexual) is present as well, in parallel. Super!
Indeed, in many poems even one image has problems, images often make no sense. Here we have a main one and another gently induced by a poetic device, and they cooperate, getting an enhanced effect.(It goes also without saying that this first line has the kind of rock'n'roll movement, U know... Well, that was the original pre-Prestley meaning of the rock'n'roll phrase anyway).
Regards,
