Fear Restrains Literary Devices
In the poem, “Fear restrains”, a variety of literary techniques were implemented. In line 1, it states that “the blackest screams tried to discourage me”, which personifies a scream as having the ability to discourage. As the poem continues, an allusion is mentioned in line 4 as it states “is worse than lying to your precious God.” A metaphor is present in line 7 that compares knots and nests to the emotion of fright, “the knots and nests of fright ought to unweave.” The final line personifies fear by stating that “fear must take our greatest urge and