What are the literary devices found in this poem "A Man I Knew" by Margaret Levine? A Man I Knew Margaret Levine has a condo a maid who comes every...

Literary
devices add value to a poem beyond the literal meanings of the words.

Some
literary devices Levine uses are as follows:

:
Levine establish a sense of rhythm through the use of alliteration, which is placing words that
begin with the same consonant in close proximity. Here, Levine uses alliteration in place of end
rhymes in the words "condo" and "comes" and "week" and
"won't." Levine also use rhyme in "float" and
"boat."

: Imagery uses the five senses
of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell. Levine employs the image, which we can visualize, of
the photo of the man's children on the dresser. We know, because the poem tells us, that the now
adult children won't come to visit. Levine then uses the image of the children as floating
forever as if they are in a boat, which conjures the picture in our minds of the children far
out on the sea, bobbing in a vessel on the waves, always offshore, always far away. This
emphasizes the man's isolation: a maid, who is hired help, comes to clean, but his children
never enter his condo.