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ELEMENTS USED IN THE POEM:
The Way Through The Woods-By: Rudyard Kipling
RUDYARD KIPLING: HE WAS POPULAR AT THE END OF THE LAST
CENTURY FOR HIS POEMS AND STORIES FOR CHILDREN. EX-
‘JUNGLE BOOK’ . HE WROTE POEMS ABOUT THE FIRST WORLD
WAR. HE WAS BORN IN 1865 AND DIED IN 1932.
CONTENT: THIS POEM IS A PECULIER PIECE ABOUT AN OLD
ROADOVERTAKEN BY TREES AND SHRUBS AND TOUCHES ON
THEMES OF MAN VERSUS NATURE,CONSCIOUSNESS VERSUS
SUBCONSCIOUSNESS AND EVEN BORDERS ON A GHOST STORIES OR
A TALE OF THE UNEXPLAINED.
FORM:THERE ARE THREE STANZAS TWO THAT HAS
SIX LINES AND ONE HAS 13 LINES.
THEME: THE THEME OF THIS POEM IS THE OLD ROAD THAT GOES
THROUGH THE WOODS AND IS NO LONGER THERE.THE POEM TELLS
US THAT IT USED TO BE THERE SEVENTY YEARS AGO, BUT NOW
WEATHERHAS DESTROYED IT AND IT IS NOW UNDERWILD FLOWERS
AND HEATH AND ONLY THE KEEPER SEES THEM .
RHYME: THE POEM HAS A COMPLEX PATTERN OF RHYMES WHICH
HELP TO CREATE ITS HAUNTING ATMOSPHERE . LIKE MANY POEMS,
IT HAS RHYMES AT THE END OF ITS LINE. THE POEM ALSO COTAINS 4
INTERNAL RHYMES. THIS ADDS TO THE COMPLEXITY OF THE SOUND
PATTERNS IN THE TEXT.
POETIC DEVICES:
1. Rhyme Scheme 2 Rhyming Words (TRUE RHYME, INTERNAL
RHYME, SIGHT RHYME) 3. Imagery 4.
