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Using Alliteration to Enhance Emotion in Poetry
Vivian Gilbert Zabel
If you liked what you've read so far, you'll love the rest. Now you too can access the resources created by top experts. Poetry begs
for emotion, in the wording by the poet and in the mind of the reader. Yet many wonder how to create emotion in their writing. One
way to enhance emotion is to use poetic devices.
Poetic devices, when used with imaginative language, help create that needed emotion in poetry. Let's look at alliteration and see
how its usage can aid create emotion.
"What in the world is alliteration?" the student of poetry asks. "It sounds like something that would make me itch or something."
Not at all, but it might tickle your ears. Alliteration, generally, is the repetition of a beginning sound (a constanant beginning
sound usually} that occurs close enough to each other to catch the eye and ear.
Little boy blue, come blow your horn from Mother Goose is an excellent example of alliteration, all those lovely b's close
together.
"Fine and dandy," the student asks, "but where is any emotion in that?"
Just give me time, and I'll get there. Ish, some people are so impatient.
Now if we take some alliteration and mix it together with language portraying the mood or emotion we want, voila!
Like gaudily wrapped gifts gathering dust in the back of my mind, memories tease me mercilessly.
The lines above invoke a sense of playfulness, maybe a bit of happiness, by using the words gaudily wrapped gifts and tease. But they
also leave a lingering sense of sadness with the words gathering dust. Both emotions, though, are strengthened and joined with the
use of alliteration: gaudily, gifts, gathering; mind, memories, me, mercilessly.
Let's look at some other examples.
Dull, drab day, you dump piles Of sorrow on seemingly somnolent life.
The emotion created by those two lines is depression or sadness. Again the alliteration makes the emotion stronger.
"Okay, I think I'm beginning to get the picture," the student admits.
Then let's look at one more example, shall we?
Gaily, giggling girls cluster together as if birds tweetering on branches of trees.
Here we have happiness showing through the alliteration.
Alliteration is just one method, one device, that can be used to enhance emotion in our writing. We can read, learn, and practice
until we have improved that imagery.
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