Sound Techniques Used In Jazz Fantasia By Carl Sandburg

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“Jazz Fantasia” by Carl Sandburg is a poem discussing how to have a good time in a Mississippi jazz night club. Throughout the poem figurative language is used to let you imagine the type of sounds being made in a jazz night club. The words to describe the sound or internal rhymed used in Jazz Fantasia to mock sound effects are called onomatopoeia. In each stanza different sound effects are repeated to give you a feel of what sounds are being made in the night club. In stanza one line one “Drum on your drums, batter on your banjoes” was referring to the sound made on the drums and banjoes when they are hit and played. By the author saying words like drum and batter gives you an idea of what they could possibly be hearing in there atmosphere.

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