Language of the poetry includes the choice of words or diction, kinds of diction as well as slur ions.
1. Nature of Diction:
If a poem says Daffodils instead of plant life coma diapers years instead of infancy, we call it diction our choice of words concrete rather than abstract.
2. Kinds of diction:
i. Concrete words
ii. Abstract words
I). Concrete words:
Concrete words refer to what we can immediately perceive with our senses: dog actor, chemical are particular individuals who belong to those general classes: Bonza the fox terror, Clint Eastwood, hydrogen sulphate.
II). Abstract words:
Abstract words Express ideas are concepts: love, time, truth. In abstracting we leave out some characteristics found in each individual, and instead observed a quality common to many. For example the word beauty may be observed in numerous persons, places and things.
