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Onomatopoeia Poems
This page provides examples of Onomatopoeia poems. The poems and poetry
selected are by famous poets who have used Onomatopoeia as a poetic or
literary device to convey, emphasize and create vivid images.
Poets use this type of device as an unusual alternative to every
day speech to help them express mood and emotion. For additional
information about Onomatopoeia please click the following link:
Onomatopoeia
Examples of Onomatopoeia
Poems
Our examples of Onomatopoeia
poems
and poetry have been selected from the work of some of the the most famous
American and English poets.
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Morte
D'Arthur by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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An Essay on
Criticism by Alexander Pope
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“The Bells”
by Edgar Allan Poe
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“Honky Tonk
in Cleveland, Ohio” by Carl Sandburg
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“The
Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes
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"Lepanto" by
G. K. Chesterton
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The Tempest,
Act I, Scene II by William Shakespeare
Extracts from poems
& poetry illustrating Onomatopoeia
The following
extracts are examples from Onomatopoeia poems and poetry:
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“I heard the
ripple washing in the reeds / And the wild water lapping
on the crag” from Morte D'Arthur by Alfred, Lord
Tennyson
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When Ajax
strives some rock's vast weight to throw,
The line too labors, and the words move slow;
Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain,
Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
by Alexander Pope
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"Sea nymphs
hourly ring his knell:
Hark! Now I hear them - Ding, dong, bell." The Tempest,
Act I, Scene II by William Shakespeare
The Use of Onomatopoeia
in Nursery Rhymes for children
This poetic device
is used in many nursery rhymes for children. The use of
Onomatopoeia is the
prefect way to teach children as such rhymes are easy to
memorise.
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Baa Baa
Black Sheep
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Ding Dong
Bell
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Cackle,
cackle, Mother Goose
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Cock-a-doodle-doo!
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Cuckoo,
cuckoo, what do you do?
Examples Help! Use
of Examples of Onomatopoeia Poems in Poems & Poetry
The Onomatopoeia poem, poems or poetry convey and emphasize unusual
and vivid images. The use of strong word association changes the
mode of thought and adds variation, embellishment and adornment
to poetic and literary works. |
