Author(s)

Qianqian Sun

Corresponding Author

Qianqian Sun

Abstract

In this poem, the poet expresses homesickness of the Jewish people for their hometown. In this paper, the author aims to describe the research background of the poem and to analyze the contents, rhyme scheme, images and rhetoric devices. For images, there are the wild gazelle, hills, rills, cedars, palm, temple, stone and so on. Each image has its own meaning, but they all have the same similarity, which is the homesick feeling for the hometown. There are also many kinds of rhetoric devices used by the poet, including contrast, personification, repetition, exaggeration and alliteration. These rhetoric devices and the contents as well as images are combined well, expressing the deep passion of the people for their land.

Keywords

Contents; Rhyme scheme; Images; Rhetoric devices