…days are as a shadow that passeth away’. The entire verse is also an extended metaphor for ‘death’. Personification – Here, the ‘shadow’ is personified as if the shadow can…
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Christmas 1970
…and a timepiece to a stubborn fact. Personification: The poet has personified the timepiece as if it has its own emotions and life. Symbolism: Symbolism is using symbols to signify…
Clark Street Bridge
…Personification: The poem shows hearts and dollars as if they have life and emotions of their own. They are personifications. Imagery: Imagery is used to make readers perceive things involving…
Disembarking at Quebec
…moon. Personification: The poet has shown the use of water and rock as if they have life and emotions of their own. She has personified them. Symbolism: Symbolism is using…
Edward, Edward
…and falling. Personification: The poet has shown the use of air and old walls as if they have life and emotions of their own. He has personified them. Rhetorical Question:…
egg horror
…Personification: The poet has shown the use of eggs as if they have life and emotions of their own. It means the poet has personified eggs. Symbolism: Symbolism is using…
Gentling A Wildcat
…implied comparison is made between the objects that are different. The poem shows the use of the extended metaphor to demonstrate the dimensions and reality of life in general. Personification:…
First Day After The War
…a metaphor of a human being having celebratory arrival. Some other metaphors or young blades, soft light, and mountains. Personification: The poem shows the use of personifications as freedom is…
I Sing the Body Electric
…metaphors. Personification: It means giving human qualities to non-human entities. In the poem, Whitman personifies the body such as in the first verse it is “I sing the body electric”…
First Love
…are different. The poet has used metaphors such as love, blood, and words shown as lightning, flood, and chords. Personification: The poet has personified words and his heart as if…
In Exile
…as pain compared to an army, or a soul compared to a victorious army, and the prairie compared to ice or mass that melts. Personification: The poet personified freedom as…
Lammas Hireling
…rose like Lammas Hireling.” Personification: The poem shows the use of personifications such as wisdom and muckle, as both have been shown as having life and emotions of their own….
Laura
…to a lady, Procne to a woman, and Philomela to a mourning woman. Personification: The poet personified Zephyr, meadows, and spring as if they have life and emotions of their…
Leda and the Swan
…air” and “Before the indifferent beak could let her drop.” Personification: The poem shows the use of personifications of body as if it has emotions and life of its own….
The Place’s Fault
…to the sunlight, exhausted from the heat” and “And that anger started to build up”. Personification: The poem shows the use of place as if it is an animate object…
The Next War
…implied comparison is made between the objects that are different. The poem used the metaphors of Death as a man and scythe as a killing tool. Personification: The poet used…
Mi Abuelo
…sometimes, and see a” and “ripple-topped stream in its best suit, in the ground.” Personification: The poem shows the use of personifications of a pipe as if it has life…
The Patriot
…mist which means the air is like a bamboo stick or old walls are like the swings. Personification: The poet has shown the use of air and old walls as…
The Haunted Palace
…seek permission to mourn its desolation, seeing that tomorrow will never come when this will become glorious again. The past glory, as presented as a personification, moves around this stately…
S. I. W.
…“Curtained with fire, roofed in with creeping fire” shows this comparison of the trench wall to a curtain and roof made of fire, emphasizing the constant danger and destruction. Personification:…
