Srijita barua asked 7 years ago
What do you mean by ‘unborn eyes’ in Henry Cuyler Bunner’s poem ‘The Heart of the Tree’? Which figure of speech is used here?
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The joy that unborn eyes shall see —
In the above line, ‘unborn eyes’ means our future generations, the ones who have not yet been born.
‘Eyes’ here means the child, a part of body representing the whole. Thus it can also be classified as a synecdoche, a class of metonymy.
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