Onomatopoeia
Because of its special status symbolizing sound, onomatopoeia has the
distinction of being the only aspect of English where there is an
intrinsic connection between the language and the ‘real world’. It is
well known that the connection between words and their referents is
arbitrary; house is no more appropriate than mansion (French) or casa
(Spanish). Onomatopoeic words, however, may have a physical connection
with their referents; the sound of wind is created by air moving
through a restricted passage and this description is equally valid for
the fricative consonants which may be used to represent the wind in a
poetic context:
I lay in an agony of imagination as the wind
Limped up the stairs and puffed on the landings,
Snuffled through floorboards from the foundations, …
(P. Redgrove, Old House)
The use of conventional onomatopoeia in modern poetry is not
remarkable in itself, although it may stand out from the surrounding
text, as in He swallowed, unresisting; moaned and dropped or He dipped
contented oars, and sighed, and slept. These lines from The Death-Bed
by Siegfried Sassoon use the onomatopoeic words moaned and sighed in a
straightforward way. The parallelism of the structure in these two
lines, however, highlights the progression from action (swallowed,
dipped) through involuntary sounds (moaned, sighed) to insensibility (dropped,
slept). This pattern, as well as pointing out similarities, emphasizes
the difference in the two events; the first is an uncomfortable
blackout to escape from the pain of his wound. The soldier’s continued
state of semi-consciousness is portrayed in the run-on li...
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...en their combined meaning
would disappear.
Other groups of sounds are also used to build up an onomatopoeic
effect. The soft sound of explosion heard from a distance, for
example, is evoked by the onomatopoeic word hoots and is echoed by
sibilants in these lines form Dulce et Decorum Est (Owens):
deaf even to the hoots
Of gas shells dropping softly behind.
In her poem Morning Song, Sylvia Plath makes effective use of the
voiceless fricative, /Ø/, to suggest the almost imperceptible
breathing of a new baby:
All night your moth-breath
Flickers among the flat pink roses.
Summary:
Words which echo the sound the word refers to are onomatopoeic. They
are often words which appeal to children, such as moo, neigh, baa.
More mature onomatopoeic words in English include clap, jingle, thud,
etc.
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