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    Where is there an example of Onomatopoeia in Poe's "The Bells"?

    What is the significance of onomatopoeia in this poem? I Hear the sledges with the bells - Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a...
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    Can anyone find an oxymoron in John Donne's poem "Song: Go Catch a falling star"?

    Where is an oxymoron in this poem? And why is it significant to the poem? here's the poem Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the devil's foot, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find...
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