What is a poetic device Poetic Device?

To rationalise thinking by giving a different meaning to an odinary terms and expressions.

The poetic devices or techniques used in Thanatopsis are A lot of Imagery, symbolism, and few methaphors. There is also personification

to make words rhyme and to use verse balance that does not ordinarily fit into the poem.

It's a thing called Juxtaposition, which is where two contrasting things are placed next to each other in a sentence. 'Tears' and 'joy' have connotations of two different emotions.

dashboard confessional-vindicated( quatrian, refrian, alliteration, simile) sympathy for the devil- the rolling stones let it be- the beatles