…where fear’s as strong as he” (line 24) compares love and fear, creating a metaphor. Personification: It gives human characteristics to non-human entities. For example, “Perchance as torches, which must…
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Faith Healing
…use of the metaphor of a “slackening ache” compared to the thawing of a rigid landscape. Personification: It gives human qualities or characteristics to non-human things. The example of “As…
Parsley
…are different but share some common characteristics. An example is “the little knot of screams” in line 32, which compares the sound of screams to a physical knot. Personification: It…
Reflections On Having Left a Place of Retirement
…of Happiness, / Unearthly minstrelsy!” show gthat Happiness is compared to a song that is quiet and ethereal. Personification: It is giving human qualities to non-human things. For example, the…
Pandemania
…its novelty. Personification: It is the attribution of human qualities to inanimate objects or abstract concepts. For example, “Breathing’s generally wary” (Line 6) gives breathing, a human quality, to wariness,…
Song of Solomon 3
…another, such as “prepared for the terrors of night” (3:8) shows night compared to a battle. Personification: It is a figure of speech that gives human qualities to non-human things,…
A Leave-Taking
…poet has used an extended metaphor of love to show the futility of his efforts. However, the best metaphor is “Love is a barren sea, bitter and deep.” Personification: The…
Under the Harvest Moon
…people, perhaps implying the fleeting nature of life. Personification: It gives human qualities to non-human entities. For example, “Love, with little hands” (Line 13) shows love personified as having hands,…
Psalm 84
…Lord. Personification: It means giving human qualities to non-human entities. For example, “the rain also filleth the pools” (Line 6) shows that rain is personified as actively filling the pools,…
Icarus
…used the extended metaphor of Icarus and Daedalus. Personification: It means to attribute human emotions to inanimate objects. The poet personified eyes as “defeated eyes” as if they have emotions…
The Definition of Love
…nature. The poet used the metaphor of a child for love. Personification: It means to attribute human emotions to inanimate objects. The poet has used the personifications such as Despair,…
The White Man’s Burden
…poet used some abstract ideas such as freedom, weariness, and praise as having some feelings and physical presence, showing them metaphors. Personification: It means to use abstract ideas as if…
John 8:32
…role and importance of truth. Personification – In this verse, ‘truth’ appears to be personified, as if truth can perform an act of releasing someone from bondage. Theme – The…
The Hill We Climb
…also used the metaphor of a country that is bruised. Personification: It means the attribution of human emotions and traits to other things or objects. The poet has used force,…
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
…and the second metaphor is used in the last line with repetition, “and miles to go before I sleep.” Here, miles represent life’s journey, while sleep represents death. Personification: Robert…
Absent From Thee
…been compared to a river that flows. Personification: The poem shows the use of personifications as mind and heart has been shown having life and emotions of their own. Rhetorical…
Crossing The Bar
…made between the objects that are different. The poem shows the use of the voyage as compared to death or death compared to a sea voyage. Personification: The poet has…
Grass
…by the end. Major Themes in “Grass”: Death, memory, and pacifism are the major themes of this poem. Although the poet has presented the grass as a personification, it presents…
Youth and Age
…to call some dead person or abstract idea. In this poem, the poet uses an apostrophe to call his youthful period, depicting it as a personification, such as “O! the…
September Midnight
…are tangled with asters.” Personification: It means to show inanimate objects or things have human feelings and passions, such as the poet presented the moon as tiring due to weather….
