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Onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the source of a sound that the word describes. For example a clock makes a tick tock noise. Tick and tock are examples of onomatopoeia. Below are several examples of oomatopoeia within famous poems. Identify examples of onomatopoeia in poetry on your own. 2  Explain the purpose for the onomatopoeia and analyze how it contributes to the theme of the poem. 3  I have provided analysis with my examples to show you what I mean. 4  Write poems containing onomatopoeia.
In linguistics, sound symbolism, phonesthesia or phonosemantics is the idea that vocal sounds or phonemes carry meaning in and of themselves.hereas onomatopoeia refers to the use of words to imitate actual sounds, there are languages known for having a special class of words that imitate soundless states or events, called phenomimes (when they describe external phenomena) and psychomimes (when they describe psychological states).