150 Examples of Poetic Resources

Miscellanea / by admin / March 17, 2022

The poetic resources, also called literary resources or literary figures, are the stylistic strategies that the poet uses to enrich and give the writing its own style.

By applying them in a poem, the poet makes use of language that goes beyond mere communication, because it gives the composition greater expressiveness and aesthetic power. For example: antithesis, apostrophe, hyperbole, paranomasia.

They can focus on phonetic, grammatical or lexical-semantic particularities.

Types of poetic devices

Poetic resources are classified as: lexical-semantic resources, phonic resources and morphosyntactic or grammatical resources.

Lexical-semantic resources. They focus on language games and different uses of words and syntax.

phonic resources. They focus on the loudness of the words and the effect they produce to complement the meaning of the word. poem.

Morphosyntactic/ grammatical resources. They produce games with the structure of the sentence or the form of words in order to find different and beautiful ways of enunciating.

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examples of metaphor

“While to compete with your hair,
burnished gold, the sun shines in vain,
while with contempt in the middle of the plain
look at your white forehead the beautiful lily”.
(Luis de Gongora)
"The blind man ignores
that where you pass,
a flower of living light
leave”.
(Gabriela Mistral)
“Daphne and her arms were growing,
and in long turned bouquets it showed itself;
in green leaves I saw that they turned
the hair that gold would darken.
(Garcilaso de la Vega)
"The stream is born, snake
that among flowers is unleashed,
and barely, silver serpent,
among the flowers it breaks…”
(Pedro Calderon de la Barca)
“Look at the dying sky and the chips of the sea
Look at the empty light like the one who left his house
The ocean gets tired of brushing the beaches
To look with one eye at the low reliefs of the sky
With an eye as chaste as death that puts it to sleep
And fall asleep in her womb.
(Tirso de Molina)

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examples of antithesis

“Love is so short and oblivion is so long”. (Pablo Neruda)
"When I want to cry I don't cry and sometimes I cry without meaning to." (Ruben Dario)
"You are like the Rose of Alexandria, which opens at night and closes during the day." (popular saying)
I go to my solitudes
I come from my loneliness
where i live and where i die
I am neither good nor bad with myself”.
(Lope de Vega)
“My trappings are the weapons
my rest, the fight
my bed, the hard rocks
my sleep, always watch”.
(Anonymous)

dilogy examples

"Freckled in manners and face." (Francisco Quevedo)
“It is love that forces so strong / that it forces all reason”. (Jorge Manrique)
“-I have scolded a hotelier.
-Why? where? when? excuse me?.
-Because where when I eat they serve me badly, I get desperate”.
(Go away)
"Comrade you know
you can count on me
not until two or until ten
but count on me”.
(Mario Benedetti)
"I would like to go to China / to get my bearings a little." (Blas de Otero, “East”)

apostrophe examples

"You, infinite sky, when will be the day that you show me your mysteries?" (Gustavo Adolfo Bequer)
Life, what can I give you?
to my God who lives in me,
if it's not losing you
for the better to enjoy Him?
(Saint Teresa of Jesus)
“Oh sad dark clouds
how strong you walk, get me out of these sadnesses
and take me to the depths
from the sea to where you are going!”
(Gil Vicente)
"And she took off her robe,
and she appeared naked all...
Oh passion of my life, poetry
Naked, mine forever!”
(Juan Ramon Jimenez)
“Enjoy neck, hair, lip and forehead,
Before it was in your golden age
Gold, lily, carnation, shining glass,
not only in silver or truncated viola
becomes, plus you and it together
on land, in smoke…”.
(Luis de Gongora)

Examples of comparison or simile

“Murmur that in the soul
rises and grows
like a volcano that deaf
announces that it will burn.
(Gustavo Adolfo Becquer)
“Some bodies are like flowers
others like daggers
others like water ribbons
but everyone, sooner or later
They will be burns that in another body are enlarged
turning a stone into a man by virtue of fire.
(Louis Cernuda)
"Like the flowering almond tree
you have to be rigorous: yes
a rough blow receives, releases
a shower of flowers.
(Salvador Rueda)
“Oh, sound loneliness! my serene heart
it opens, like a treasure, to the breath of your breeze”.
(Juan Ramon Jimenez)
“White hands, made
as of soft flour”.
(Gabriela Mistral)

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Examples of epithet

Where a clear water with sound
walked across the cool green meadow
Which is the white lily when it loses
his sweet life among the green grass
For you the green grass, the fresh wind
the white lily and red rose
and sweet spring I liked…”.
(Garcilaso de la Vega)
"There they move fierce war
blind kings.
(pronceda)
“Red sunsets from another age,
burning without burning».
(Moorish Angels)
“Throw your white snow like a ring
like a love ring
like a ring of resplendent love.
(White Andrew)
“Castile, land of heroes,
good land of castles;
old floor, brown cradle
of tall yellow wheats.
(Glory Strong)

examples of hyperbole

“It lies, on this hard slab
such a thin woman
that in the scabbard of a sword
brought to the grave."
(Baltasar of Alcazar)
“Most excellent Lord, my tears
no longer allows margins or edges:
flood will be the one of my song”.
(Francisco Quevedo)
Seeing you smile at the window
let the believer fall on his knees…”
(Carlos Pezoa Veliz)
“She has turned the flow of her tears
in the water of the rivers that cross the two Castillas,
capable of causing flooding...
(Francisco Quevedo)
“With my crying the stones soften
its natural hardness and break it;
the trees seem to lean”.
(Garcilaso de la Vega)

examples of metonymy

“Oh, woods and thickets
planted by the hand of the Beloved!
O vegetable meadow,
of enameled flowers!,
tell if it has happened for you”.
(San Juan de la Cruz) (The matter for the object: the vegetation is green)
“In Today and Tomorrow and Yesterday, together
diapers and shroud, and I have been
present successions of the deceased…”.
(Francisco de Quevedo) (Effect for cause: the diaper that was used in the past / the shroud that will be used in the future)
"If my voice died on earth,
take her to sea level
and leave her on the shore."
(Rafael Alberti) (The part for the whole: The voice – the poet)
“Christ, neckless at night: your head
to friday again, back to dead
that you will be again, open lamb,
where the eternity of the nail begins.
Eyes that to the rattle of sadness
They're leaving, they're leaving us. To what port?
All the thirst in the world has covered you,
and abandon all your poverty.
(Miguel Arteche) (The part for the whole: Christ – head/ eyes)
"How many times, love, I loved you without seeing you and perhaps without remembering,
without recognizing your look, without looking at you, centaury,
in opposite regions, in a burning noon:
you were just the scent of the cereals that I love.”
(Pablo Neruda) (Effect by cause: burning – hot)

Examples of sensory images

“…I will always remember your nakedness in my hands,
your smell of enjoyed sandalwood
nailed by the morning sun;
your girlish laugh,
or stream,
or bird;
your long and loving hands
like a treacherous lily to its former colors.”
(Rock Dalton)
“Yesterday when he casually saw her
outside the classroom that you love so much
I wanted to be a smart student
that, instead of a thesis, I wrote a song for him”.
(Louis Pastori)
“There are perfumed kisses, warm kisses
that throb in intimate yearnings,
there are kisses that leave traces on the lips
like a field of sun between two pieces of ice”.
(Gabriela Mistral)
“The half-closed window frames a face
over the field of the sea. the pretty hair
They accompany the tender rhythm of the sea.
(Cesare Pavese)
“A hard slap, an icy blow,
an invisible and homicidal blow,
a brutal push has knocked you down.”
(Miguel Hernandez)

rhetorical question examples

"Who can take me out?
of this my cruel moment
i can barely stand
for having a dead body?
(Claudia Prado)
“How does that rose you have lit live?
next to your heart?
(Gustavo Adolfo Becquer)
“Are there brambles in bloom
among the gray rocks,
and white daisies
among the fine grass?
Do the banks already have nightingales?
(Antonio Machado)
"What is life?
you ask me while you make me fall in love,
you forget me, you ruin me”.
(p. of the castle)
“Death walks freely
despite spring.
Where the green joy
if a bad wind turns it black?
Will death be necessary
to implant spring?
(Rafael Alberto)

Examples of litote

“Neither a seducer Mañara nor a Bradomin have I been”.
(TO. machado)
“You have to get to the edge
and rush this life
who doubts herself
and that hesitates,
and maybe it stops.
and return, if possible,
for having discovered
that nothing, nothing happens,
because there is not in you
more than ochres,
these greys,
the dark blues
of autumn".
(Jose Corredor-Matheos)
“God give the glory of him to Boscán,
and Garcilaso poet,
that with no small effort,
and for his gallant style
they held this mushroom.”
(Cristobal de Castillejo)
"And you will be plunged
in unfinable evils and in oblivion”.
(Fray Luis de Leon)
“An unbroken dream,
I want a pure, happy, free day;
I don't want to see the frown
vainly severe
of whom the blood exalts or the money”.
(Fr. Luis de Leon)

examples of synesthesia

“In sound colors suspended
the eyes hear, the ears look…”
(Francisco Lopez de Zarate)
“I listen with my eyes to the dead…”. (Francisco Quevedo)
"That same sharp, hard scent." (Louis Cernuda)
"Your name tastes like grass to me." (Joan Manuel Serrat)
“What violet tranquility along the evening path!” (J. R. Jimenez)

examples of oxymoron

"The silent music, the sound solitude" (San Juan de la Cruz)
“Blind sight, dark light,
sad glory, dead life”.
(Rodrigo Cota de Maguaque)
"Leave me alone, peaceful furious,
hidalgo villain, shy arrogant,
crazy sane, ignorant philosopher,
blind lynx, safe cautious…”.
(Lope de Vega)
And while with gentle discourtesy
the wind moves the flying thread…”.
(Luis de Gongora)
"And do not let
that the taps open
flood the rooms:
than the yellow petal
of the hours turn on
of cold sun the empty spaces”.
(Julia Uceda)

Examples of personification

“A dream I dreamed last night
little dream of my soul,
she dreamed of my loves,
that she had them in my arms.
I saw such a white lady come in
much more than cold snow.
"Where did you get in, love?"
How did you get my life?
The doors are closed,
windows and shutters.
I am not love, lover:
but the Death that God sends you.
—Ay, Death so rigorous,
let me live one day!
—One day it cannot be,
you have one hour to live”.
(Anonymous)
“Wine, first, pure,
dressed in innocence
And I loved her like a child.
And she took off her robe,
and she appeared naked all...
Oh passion of my life, poetry
Naked, mine forever!”
(Juan Ramon Jimenez)
"Faint king, bishop bias, fierce
queen, direct rook and ladino pawn
on the black and white of the road
seek and wage their armed battle.
They don't know that the pointed hand
of the player governs his fate,
they do not know that an adamantine rigor
subject his will and his journey.”
(Jorge Luis Borges)
“Children of the world, she is
mother Spain with her belly on her back;
is our teacher with her splints,
she is mother and teacher,
cross and wood, because she gave you the height
vertigo and division and addition, children;
is with her, procedural parents!”.
(Cesar Vallejo)
"The stars watched us
while the city smiled.
(p. of the castle)

Examples of tautology

“Heat is produced by a substance called caloricum.” (Moliere)
"What cannot be, cannot be, and it is also impossible." (Raphael War)
“I love what you love… I love you!
I love you for love without double edge”.
(Axel)
"Green I want you green
green wind green branches
The boat over the sea
the horse on the mountain.
(Federico Garcia Lorca)
"Rosa is a rose, is a rose, is a rose." (Gertrude Stein)

Examples of synonyms

“Treacherous, disloyal, fement,
cruel, unruly and tyrannical:
cowardly, greedy, bastards,
obstinate, ferocious and villainous;
adulterers, infamous, known
by industrious, more cowardly hands”.
(Miguel de Cervantes)
“Suddenly, Rome is alone,
Rome is alone, without anyone”.
(Rafael Alberto)
"Lie! I have no doubts, no jealousy,
Neither restlessness, nor anguish, nor pain, nor yearning,
If the moisture of tears shines in my eyes,
It's because of the effort of laughing so much…”.
(Juana Ibarbouru)
“I went to your house and did not find you in the
park, in the square, in the cinema I looked for you”.
(Manna)
"I warn you and I announce that today I resign
to your dirty business."
(Shakira)

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alliteration examples

“To the winged souls of the roses”. (Miguel Hernandez)
“Of ends, fleeting, fugitive, fires melted in your founded skin”. (Jaime Siles)
"Clear morning hours,
in which a thousand bugles of gold
say the divine target:
Hail to the celestial sonorous sun”.
(Ruben Dario)
“You break through the ceiling
with your hoarse snoring
gone in musical -re.
I grab you rampant,
and I reaffirm how rare it is
rip your clothes,
rip your clothes like a raptor.
And more claims.
you turn red-brown
when you beg furiously for my rage”.
(Felix Rosario Ortiz)
"Hear the sordid sound of the undertow, infamous mob of nocturnal birds." (Gongora)

examples of onomatopoeia

“O formidable Japanese monster with forge eyes,
nourished by flames and mineral oils,
hungry for horizons and starry prey
your heart expands in its diabolical taf-taf
and your sturdy tires swell for the dances
Let them dance on the white highways of the world."
(Filippo Marinetti)
“Kikiriki,
I'm here,
said the rooster
hummingbird”.
(Glory Fountains)
“Knock – knock, silence knocks on the door
Knocking down everything that its path crosses
tick-tock, the clock claims
Silent silence in my head.
Cric-cric, the insult of the cricket
That hurts the soul with his words
cruuujjjjjjj, the walls respond
Framing my sorrow in tears.
Shhhhhh, the waterfall begins
To break feelings of the heart
Splash, the booby sounds
To the most negative emotion.
Fffuuuu, the wind resounds
Remembering a dark night
Wow, the hound is with me
Friend who cares and seeks.
Zzzz the dream appears
More try and try to listen
The sound of silence that proclaims
The pain of not being able to love you.
(Michael von Dangel)
"By the wayside
There is a stone fountain,
And a little clay pot -glu-glu-
That no one takes."
(Antonio Machado)
“Oh Sinamaica! how to describe you
Caribbean maiden with indigenous features
lagoon princess
Spoiled daughter of the sun's rays
Oh Sinamaica! how to describe you
Owner of a long hair of palm trees
Here I go, running through your skin
Color of the dunes
Admiring your smile from Salinas
An exotic Indian is what you are, Karouya.”
(Reynaldo Fernandez)

Examples of cramp

“I would like to have a friend
called Tenta.
And always be with Tenta”.
(Glory Fountains)
"Crusaders make crusaders,
shields Paint Shields,
and gamblers, very naked,
with dice they win Counties;
Ducats leave Ducats,
and Majesty crowns:
truth!".
(Luis de Gongora)
And my voice that matures
and my voice burns
and my forest matures
and my voice burns hard.
(Xavier Villaurrutia)
"The sweet lament of the shepherds,
shepherds lick the sweet late.
(Garcilaso de la Vega)
Parid, beautiful fleur-de-lys,
in affliction so strange,
yes paris, paris to Spain,
if not paris, to paris”.
(Anonymous)

Examples of paronomasia

"It's a wall, it's a mere wall, it's mute, look, it dies." (Alejandra Pizarnik)
“Bandaged that you have sold me”. (Luis de Gongora)
"The hedgehog shimmers, bristles, curls with laughter." (Octavio Paz)
"A man on the shoulders of fear." (Blas de Otero)
"So much silly ink that pays attention to you and stupefies you." (Tow)

examples of anaphora

“O night you led!
oh kind night more than the dawn!
oh night you put together!”
(Saint John of the Cross)
"Hit the cross, mill
until the wheat snows
hit the stone, water
until she is tame
give the mill, air
to the endless
give the air, goatherd
until it whistles softly”.
(Miguel Hernandez)
“While the waves of light kiss
they throbbed on fire;
while the sun the torn clouds
of fire and gold sight;
while the air in her lap carries perfumes and harmonies;
as long as there is spring in the world
There will be poetry!”
(Gustavo Adolfo Becquer)
"There are silent kisses, noble kisses
there are enigmatic, sincere kisses
There are kisses that are given only by souls
there are kisses for forbidden, true”.
(Gabriela Mistral)
“There are those who need a love song;
there are those who need a song of friendship;
there are those who need to go back to the sun
to sing the greatest freedom”.
(Silvio Rodriguez)

examples of anadiplosis

"Hey, don't be afraid, and tell my nymph,
tell him I'm dying."
(Esteban Manuel de Villegas)
"Everything happens and everything is,
but our thing is to pass,
spend making paths,
paths over the sea.
(Antonio Machado)
“Sometimes I think of you even dressed,
dressed as a woman for the night,
the night that changed so much in my life;
my life, let me unbutton you…”.
(Javier Krahe, 20th century)
“They will forgive you the hours badly;
the hours that filing are the days,
the days that gnaw away are the years”.
(Luis de Gongora)
“The Cid was very suffering, very tired of work,
tired of so many wars that have passed through him (...)”.
(Romance of the Cid)

Bypass Examples

"If for thinking you get angry
I thought not to hate you,
I would think of not loving you
for not thinking of falling out of love;
more thinking about my torment,
without thinking where I'm going,
I think my thought
He doesn't think I think."
(Francisco Lopez de Villalobos)
"As the winds change,
how the branches change,
that, naked in winter,
they dress in the summer,
we will change our dances
by points and at every step,
then move the women
It is not a new or strange case (…)”.
(Miguel de Cervantes)
“Long live God, I have to see her!
You will see the greatest beauty
that the king's eyes see."
(Tirso de Molina)
“Ambassador of the King I am,
I bring you an embassy from him.”
(Tirso de Molina)
"Don't look at me, they look
that we look at each other;
let's look at the way
not to look at us
let's not look at each other
And when they don't look at us
We'll look at each other."
(Manolo Escobar)

Examples of epiphora

“I grew up drowned in shadow,
drowning in seas of shadow,
treading paths of boredom and shadow,
wearing on the lips
a harsh signal of shadow and silence”.
(Angelina Gatell)
“The crying of the guitar begins.
It is useless to shut her up.
It is impossible to shut her up."
(Federico Garcia Lorca)
"He didn't say words,
only a questioning body approached,
because he did not know that desire is a question
whose answer does not exist,
a leaf whose branch does not exist,
a world whose sky does not exist”.
(Louis Cernuda)
“Really, is there nothing?
There is nothing.
Nothingness, hear it well, my soul.
fall asleep, fall asleep in nothing.
And that you don't remember. It was your glory."
(Maria Zambrano)
"You see what nonsense,
I like to write your name
fill out papers with your name,
fill the air with your name,
tell the children your name,
write to my dead father
and tell him that your name is like that”.
(Glory Strong)

Examples of hyperbaton

“There is a thickness of green willows” (Garcilaso de la Vega)
"Where foamy the Sicilian sea
the silver argent foot to Lilibeo
pale ashen signs a plain
of the hard trade da”.
(Luis de Gongora)
“Well, to his continuous tenderness
a violent passion united.
In a peplo of sheer gauze
a bacchante was wrapped”.
(Ruben Dario)
"And for the cruel one who rips me
the heart with which I live,
Thistle or nettle cultivation;
I cultivate the white rose”.
(Jose Marti)
"gray and purple
it is my olive grove”.
(Jose Moreno Villa)

examples of complexion

"The sea. The sea.
The sea. Only the sea”.
(Rafael Alberto)
"For
come to taste it all,
you don't want to like anything.
For
come to know everything
you don't want to know anything about anything.
To come to possess it all,
don't want to own something in nothing.
To come to be everything,
don't want to be something at all
To come to what you don't like,
you have to go where you don't like;
To come to what you don't know,
You have to go where you don't know.
To come to possess what you do not possess,
you have to go where you do not have.
To come to what you are not,
you have to go where you are not.
when you notice something,
you stop throwing yourself into everything.
To come from all to all,
you have to leave yourself completely in everything.
And when you come to have it at all,
you have to have it without wanting anything”.
(Saint John of the Cross)
“Let a bald don be worth his salt
that she ate a pellet,
may well be.
More than the honorable viznaga
don't say it was salad,
can not be.
Let an old man get dark
and that dawn red,
may well be.
More than to believe, it narrows us
that is a miracle and not pickled,
can not be".
(Luis de Gongora)
"It would be less punished if it were not
I nard your complexion for my sight, nard,
I thistle your skin for my touch, thistle,
out your voice to my ear, out”.
(Miguel Hernandez)
"Another afternoon that does not burn this afternoon
without the day after tomorrow
another afternoon so cowardly this afternoon
who doesn't taste apples."
(Joaquin Sabina)

Examples of epanadiplosis

“The owner of the turtledoves, the owner…”.
(Ruben Dario)
"What was it like, my God, what was it like?"
(Juan Ramon Jimenez)
"Go, little soldier, go
next to that brunette”.
(traditional romance)
"Words of love, words."
(Gerardo Diego)
"Last mooring, my last anxiety creaks in you."
(Pablo Neruda).

examples of polysyndeton

"The garden was not green
of moon…?… The sky was clear
and blue… and there are clouds and wind
and the garden is gloomy…”
(Juan Ramon Jimenez)
“There is a palace and a river and
a lake and an old bridge,
and fountains with moss and grass
high and silence… a silence”.
(Juan Ramon Jimenez)
“And the Holy One of Israel opened his hand,
and he left them and fell into the cliff
the chariot and the horse and knight…”.
(Fernando de Herrera)
“[…] and the branches sleep
of the hidden fronds.
And I feel hollow
of passion and music”.
(Federico Garcia Lorca)
“…then you can't do anything
nor wind up the clock,
nor disheveled,
nor order the papers”.
(Glory Fountains)

examples of ellipses

With these and other laws and statutes
we preserve ourselves and live happily;
we are lords of the fields, of the sown,
of the jungles, of the mountains, of the springs, of the rivers
the mountains offer us firewood for free, the trees bear fruit;
the vineyards grapes”.
(Miguel de Cervantes)
“Not only in silver or truncated viola
It becomes, plus you and it together
On land, in smoke, in dust, in shadow, in nothing”.
(Luis de Gongora)
"In April it rains a lot".
(Popular proverb)
“The tall trees are carried by the wind,
and to lovers the thought”.
(Song book)
“For a look, a world;
for a smile, a sky;
for a kiss... I don't know
What would I give you for a kiss!”
(Gustavo Adolfo Becquer)

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