We can also see the use of simile here. Lots of alliteration greets us in line 5 with the repetition of all those W words. (Check out "Sound Check" for more.)Īnd when the white moths were on the wing, And moth-like stars were flickering out, I dropped the berry in a stream And caught a little silver trout Alliteration is one of the ways that Yeats creates rhythm in this poem. We also see some alliteration going on in these lines with the repetition of the H sound in "hazel" and "hooked.". That's certainly more poetic than a dirty old worm. Our speaker's using a… berry for bait. Still, we can't help but wonder if there will be more magical stuff to come in this poem… 
What's the speaker up to here? Is he trying to make a magic wand? Nope-he's making a fishing rod.But the image of the fire represents this desire, or drive, that takes him to the hazel wood.Īnd cut and peeled a hazel wand, And hooked a berry to a thread No, Aengus' head isn't literally on fire. The "fire" in Aengus' head is an example of metaphor.
Some internal pull makes Aengus get up and go to that wood.
He tells us that he went out to a "hazel wood"-a wood with trees that produce all of those hazelnuts we love to eat-because "a fire" was in his head. The poem begins with the word "I," which means that a first-person narrator, Aengus, is at the center of the action. I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head,
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