2.5 Nose Versus Eyes-FOS

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 2.5 Nose Versus Eyes

Figure of speech   

1. Personification-

1. So Tongue was the lawyer, and argued the cause.

Ans- The ‘tongue’ has given the human quality of ‘arguing’.

2. While Chief Baron Ear sat to balance the laws

Ans- The Ear is personified as a ‘judge’.

3. So famed for his talent in nicely discerning judgement.

Ans- the ear has given the male pronoun ‘his’ and given the human quality of being ‘discerning’.

4. Then shifting his side, as a lawyer knows how.

Ans- the ‘tongue’ has personified and given the male pronoun ‘his’.

5. He pleaded again in behalf of the Eyes.

Ans- the ‘tongue’ has personified and given the human quality of ‘pleading’.

2. Alliteration-

1. The spectacles set them unhappily wrong.

Ans- The sound ‘s’ is repeated for poetic effect.

2. To which the said spectacles ought to belong.

Ans- The sound ‘s’ is repeated for poetic effect.

3. With great deal of skill, and a wig full of learning.

Ans- The sound ‘w’ is repeated for poetic effect.

4. So famed for his talent in nicely discerning judgement.

Ans- The sound ‘f’ is repeated for poetic effect.

5. Designed to sit close to it, just like a saddle.

Ans- The sound ‘s’ is repeated for poetic effect.

6. Pray who would, or who could, wear spectacles then?

Ans- The sound ‘w’ is repeated for poetic effect.

7. With a reasoning the court will never condemn.

Ans- The sound ‘c’and ‘w’ are repeated for poetic effect.

3. Simile

1. They are made with a straddle as wide as the ridge of the nose

Ans- The straddle of the spectacles is directly compared with the ridge of the nose.

4. Inversion

1. Between Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose

Ans-The word order is changed for poetic effect. The correct order is ‘ A strange contest arose between Nose and Eyes ’.

5. Tautology

1. On the whole it appears, and my argument shows.

Ans- The word ‘appears’ and ‘shows’ have the same meaning.

Special Features-

Satire- is a way of criticizing someone or something in which you use humours, to show his faults or weakness.

In this poem, Poet William Cowper mocks on Judicious system.

Rhyme Scheme- ‘abab ‘

Prepared by -Jyoti Walunj 

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