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4-ONOMATOPOEIA*

Onomatopoeia is a musical tool in which the sounds of words reflects their meanings. Poets use onomatopoeic words not only as direct verbal imitation of natural sounds, but also as compressive device of implying the senses they are intended to represent. Robert Lowell in "Between the Porch and the Alter" says

when we try to kiss,
Our eyes are slits and cringing*, and we hiss*...

The word hiss is onomatopoeia. Hiss is the sound of snakes and the poet uses it in order to transmit his feelings of bitterness, betray after the return of his sweetheart to him


another form of the onomatopoeia:
onomatopoeia may be suggested through a specific order of some sounds or repetition of some words. Consider the word "trod" in the following line:

Generations* have trod*, have trod, have trod.

In this line the onomatopoeia refers to . . . . Try to answer

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