Literary Devices In The Bloody Men

Wendy Cope, creates a well written poem that engages the reader. She designed this poem to contain several literary devices, which brings character and originally to her writing. In the poem "Bloody Men" by Wendy Cope, the poet displays a distinct relationship between men and busses. Cope, presents this association by the use of diction, imagery, simile, symbolism and anthropomorphism. Wendy Cope refers to the typical structures used in her work to convey her messages in a simple manner to the readers. Cope properly exploits, the different literary devices to help readers appreciate, interpret and analyze her work more efficiently. Cope writes her poem with several rhetorical strategies that appeal to a variety of audiences such as single, divorced, lonely, and searching for love women. Diction is a key element and foundation to a well written poem. To begin with, Cope uses words like "bloody" and "lorries" in her poem, rather than being more specific and defining the words "fucking" or "cars"("Lorries" def.

What do "year" and "appear", "ride" and "decide", or "gaze" and "days" all have in common (Cope lines 2,4,6,8,10,12)? Each rhyme, Cope used 3 sets of rhymes in her poem, which brings pleasure to her readers. The alternating pattern of rhyming words creates a more lively, engaging poem for the reader to appreciate. In her poem, Cope first sets the stage by describing a specific scenario, she says, "Bloody men are like bloody buses"(Cope line 1). Cope properly applies the literary device of simile to draw a connection between eagerly awaiting for a man to come into the picture, relating to the struggle and time spent waiting for the perfect bus. Bloody men are like bloody busses makes the reader see the rhetoric for a meaning used within the words such reading the words for how they are instead of basing it on the actions that