The poet has also used both repetition and similes in the poem. For example - ‘must wait, must stand and wait’ (repetition) and ‘looked at me vaguely as cattle do’ (simile). Pick out examples of both and make a list of them in your notebooks. Give reasons why the poet uses these literary devices.
Repetition
• And must wait, must stand and wait
• to feel so honoured I felt so honoured
• And slowly and slowly very slowly
• I was afraid
• I was most afraid
• from the burning bowels of the earth
• Into the burning bowels of the earth
Simile
• as cattle do, as drinking cattle do
• Lifted his head from his drinking, as cattle do
• He had come like a guest in quiet.
• And lifted his head dreamily, as one who has tongue.
• And flickered his tongue like a forked night on the air.
• And looked around like a God
• writhed like lightning
• he seemed to me again like a king.