…the author, William Golding is the narrator of the story. Personification: Personification means to attribute human acts and emotions to non-living objects. For example, i. Smoke was rising here and…
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There is No Frigate like a Book
…is made between the objects that are different in nature. For example, “travelling” is used as an extended metaphor to exhibit the power of words. Personification: Personification is to give…
After Death
…not love her when she was alive such as “He did not love me living; but once dead. Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. The poet…
After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes
…“As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow” and “A Quartz contentment, like a stone.” Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to non-human things. For example, heart is personified in the…
The Wild Swans at Coole
…made between the objects that are different in nature. The poet has used swans as a metaphor of love, nature, and imagination. Personification: Personification is used to attribute human qualities…
The Chambered Nautilus
…of thought I hear a voice that sings.” Personification: Oliver has used personification that means to use emotions for inanimate objects. Here, the Nautilus is personified at several places in…
Who Has Seen the Wind?
…as it is ironic that we cannot see the wind, yet its art is seen and felt. Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. The poet has…
Carrion Comfort
…carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee” the poet compares despair with “Carrion comfort”. Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. For example, the emotion of despair…
1984
…Orwell is the narrator of 1984. Personification: Personification means to attribute human acts and emotions to non-living objects. For example, i. ‘If the Party could thrust its hand into the…
Ode on Melancholy
…Personification: Personification is to give human characteristics to non-human things. For example, ‘melancholy’ in the twenty-sixth line is personified. “Veil’d Melancholy has her sovran shrine.” Symbolism: Symbolism is using symbols…
Song: To Celia
…deeper truth. For example, line 5 shows the speaker using a paradox when he says, “The thirst that from the soul doth rise / Doth ask a drink divine.” Personification:…
Concord Hymn
…today a votive stone” and “Here once the embattled farmers stood.” Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to non-human things. For example, “By the rude bridge that arched the…
The Barefoot Boy
…pride” and “Happy if they sink not in, Quick and treacherous sands of sin.” Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to non-human things. For example, “For, eschewing books and…
The Great Gatsby
…view. Personification: Personification means to attribute human acts and emotions to non-living objects. For example, Half a dozen fingers pointed at the amputated wheel. (Chapter-3) Blinded by the glare of…
Composed upon Westminster Bridge
…to make readers perceive things involving their five senses. For example, “The river glideth at his own sweet will” and “This City now doth, like a garment, wear.” Personification: Personification…
A Time to Believe
…hand” and “To believe is to see angels/dancing among the clouds.” Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. For example, angels are personified in the second stanza…
In and Out of Time
…their five senses. For example, “I screamed to the heavens… loudly screamed”, “We see in the distance our long way home” and “You freed your braids.” Personification: Personification is to…
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
…“As a flock, twittering, rising, or overhead passing.” Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. The poet has used this device at many places in the poem….
The Habit of Perfection
…has used purification as an extended metaphor just to show the noticeable changes it brings to one’s life. Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. The poet…
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
…Americans or free people, while the caged bird is the metaphor of African Americans and their captivity in the social norms. Personification: Maya Angelou has used personification such as “sighing…
