…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…
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Sonnet 70
…of the poem to a crow in the sky. Personification: It gives human qualities to non-human things. For example, “being woo’d of time” (Line 6) shows time gave the human…
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,…
Courage
…made between objects that are different in nature. The poet used the metaphor of the sword for death, showing that it becomes sharpened during old age. Personification: It means to…
Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep
…the wind, and even the sunlight. Personification: It means to use human attributes to lifeless things to show as if they have life and emotions of their own. For example,…
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798
…The poet used the extended metaphor of nature as a healing power or his sibling or a friend or even a living being. Personification: It means to attribute human emotions…
Deer Symbolism
…use deer as personification in most loved folk tales such as ‘The One-Eyed Doe’ and ‘The Stag and a Lion’. In pop cultures, especially films like the Chronicles of Narnia,…
In Memoriam, [Ring out, wild bells]
…“like” or “as,” such as in “Ring out the grief that saps the mind” in line 9. Personification: It is giving human characteristics to non-human things, such as in “The…
Counter Attack
…Personification: The attribution of human characteristics to non-human things. For example, the line “While dawn broke like a face with blinking eyes” (line 2) shows the dawn is personified as…
The Manhunt
…speech that combines contradictory terms. An example of this can be found in the line “blown hinge” (line 6), where the oxymoron highlights the severity of the soldier’s injuries. Personification:…
Sonnet XXXVIII
…speaker suggests that their writing is of little consequence (“slight muse”), but also acknowledges that if it is well-received. Personification: It is giving human qualities to something that is not…
Casey at the Bat
…of a beating heart. Personification: It gives human qualities to non-human things in the poem. Lines 29-30 show the described as “unheeded” as if it has a will of its…
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,…
Christmas Bells
…earth, good-will to men!” (Lines 23-25). Personification: It gives human qualities to non-human things. Longfellow personifies hate, which “is strong, / And mocks the song / Of peace on earth,…
The Dream
…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…
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…
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,…
