Focus Question: What poetic devices do poets use? Answer: they use figurative language like: imagery, simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, allusion
Poems with figurative language:
“My Papa’s Waltz” by Thedore Roethke
“Young” by Anne Sexton
“In Memoriam” by Lord Alfred Tennyson
“Ode to Family Photographs” by Gary Soto
“We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks
“Eviction (originally titled The First)” by Lucille Clifton
“The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes