Write the figures of speech of The Snowflakes Sail Gently Down Gabriel Okara - uses many figures of speech in the poem The Snowflakes Sail Gently Down These devices help show winter death dream and hope They make the poem rich and clear Metaphor The poet calls snow a white funeral cloth This makes the snow look like a cloth used in burial It shows death and silence He also calls the sky the misty eye This makes the sky seem alive and watching The earth is called deathless meaning it never truly dies Simile The branches bow like grief-stricken mourners This simile shows deep sadness At the end the trees bow like white-robed Moslems salaaming This shows respect prayer and softness Personification Nature is given human actions Snowflakes sail The sky has an eye The earth lies inscrutable like a silent face hiding secrets These make nature feel alive