Someone (don't remember author's name) wrote that poem for maintain global harmony. Normally, people find it difficult to adjust with others owing to cultural and nationalistic differences. This poem aims at them and tells them to utilize the similarities. It aims at solving interpersonal barriers.
Hence the 1st line says so.
NO MEN ARE FOREIGN, NO COUNTRIES STRANGE
The poem "No Men are Foreign" by James Kirkup uses literary devices such as personification, metaphor, and repetition. Personification is evident in lines like "their sins, my own" where nations are given human characteristics. Metaphors such as "when one man dies" compare individual lives to drops in an ocean. Repetition is used in the refrain "no men are foreign" to emphasize the poem's theme of universal brotherhood.
critical appreciation
what are the literary devices used in the poem from the emigrants
Alliteration, repetition, and onomatopoeia are all literary devices used in "The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe. Each stanza in the poem features a different type of bell, and the use of these literary devices helps create a sense of rhythm and musicality in the poem.
personification
repetition of the word dust
end rhyme, alliteration, assonance
The poem employs similes, imagery, hyperbole and a proverb.
oxymorons and pathetic fallacy
Some literary devices used in the poem "Epitaph" by Katherine Philips include personification (attributing human characteristics to death), metaphor (comparing death to a jealous lover), and symbolism (using the image of the tomb as a representation of eternal rest). These devices help create a vivid and impactful depiction of death in the poem.
the use of iamic pentameter, reptition, rhythm, diction, and irony are used
Literary devices used in "The Weaver Bird" include metaphor, personification, imagery, anaphora, alliteration, and antithesis
Simile- The quilt-smooth as banks of Ganges silt!
literary devices that is used in chapter 3 in wine of astonishment