…moon”; “The little dog laughed” and “And the dish ran away with the spoon”. Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. For example, “The little dog laughed”…
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Tulips
…awful baby’. In the 52nd line “Then the tulips filled it up like a loud noise” the poet compares the arrival of tulips with a loud noise. Personification: Personification is…
Thanatopsis
…and hoary seers of ages past” and the sound of /w/ in “With patriarchs of the infant world—with kings”. Personification: Personification is to give human attributes to inanimate objects. He…
The Cremation of Sam McGee
…in “So I want you to swear that, foul or fair, you’ll cremate my last remains.” Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. For example, “The Arctic…
The Flea
…these living walls of jet.” Personification: Personification is to give human characteristics to inanimate objects. For example, the flea is personified in the eighth line as if human pampers it,…
Auguries of Innocence
…in the same line such as the sound of /oo/ in “To those poor Souls who dwell in Night”. Personification: Personification is to give human attributes to non-human things. For…
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
…of vowel sounds in the same line such as the sound /i/ in “The tide rises, the tide falls”. Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to non-human things. For…
Silence
…lines of the poem, “There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be.” Personification: Personification is to give human characteristics to…
Miniver Cheevy
…is the repetition of vowel sounds in the same line such as the sound of /e/ in “He missed the medieval grace” and “Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn.” 4. Personification:…
Ode to the West Wind
…are the examples of auditory imagery. Similarly, “Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere” and “Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks” are the examples of kinetic imagery. Personification:…
A Psalm of Life
…the world’s broad field of battle” and “Footprints on the sands of time”. Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate subjects. He has personified the soul in the…
My Shadow
…to the head” and the sound of /i/ in “And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.” Personification: Personification is to accord human attributes to…
Ode on a Grecian Urn
…Personification is to give human attributes to animate or inanimate objects. He has used personifications at several places in the poem. He addresses the urn as “bride of quietness” and…
When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be
…grains to language or literature, “Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain”. Personification: Personification is to give human characteristics to non-human things. The first example is seen in the…
Death, Be Not Proud
…has used various literary devices to allow readers to try to find more interpretations. The analysis of some of the literary devices is given below. Personification: Personification means to attribute…
Arms and the Boy
…his fingers supple.” and “There lurk no claws behind his fingers supple.” Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. For example, “How cold steel is, and keen…
The Raven
…a demon’s that is dreaming.” The poet here compares Raven’s eyes with fire and demon. Personification: Personification is a device that gives human attributes to non-living things or animals such…
To a Mouse
…the metaphor of the speaker’s life. He used a mouse’s life to describe his own ups and downs. Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. For example,…
Lights Out
…sleep that is sweeter” and the sound of /l/ in “All pleasure and all trouble.” Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. For example, “Deceived the travellers”,…
On Being Brought from Africa to America
…them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal meanings. Here, “sable race” symbolizes African race. Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. For example, mercy is…
