Edward Hirsch successfully and skillfully uses many language devices in his love poem“REGRET”including figurative languages, sppech styles, enjambment, metaphors, images, oxymoron, and chiasmus.
Of the kinds of words we have enumerated it may be observed that compounds are most in place in the dithyramb, strange words in heroic, and metaphors in iambic poetry.
The metaphor representing the Yin and Yang or the first male and female connection - the right and left eyes of Horus is the Vesica Pisces becoming the symbol for the First Light.