492 search results for "personification"

Invictus

…of the shade.” Here shade refers to unseen future or upcoming challenges. Personification: Personification is used to attribute human characteristics to an inanimate object. The poet has personified “night” in…

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

…Here Wordsworth compares the endless row of daffodils with countless stars. Personification: Personification is to attribute human characteristics to lifeless objects. The poet has personified “daffodils” in the third line…

Holding Hands

…walk/And feel so gay.” Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. The poet personifies elephants throughout the poem, such as “Elephants work/And elephants play.” Symbolism: Symbolism is…

The World is Too Much With Us

…God! I’d rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn.” Personification: Personification is to attribute human characteristics to non-human or even inanimate objects. The poet has used personification at…

Sonnet 73

…Consonance: Consonance is the repetition of the same consonant sounds in the same line, such as /b/ sound in “Which by-and-by black night doth take away.” Personification: Personification is to…

Spare

…means to attribute human emotions to inanimate objects. The poet used the personification of leaves as if they were creating a splash of water. It is an indirect personification. Symbolism:…

The Waste Land

…the violet air / Falling towers / Jerusalem Athens Alexandria / Vienna London / Unreal.” These cities show the destruction of cultural and traditional values. Personification: Personification is used to…

Mother and Child

…uses personification to explain her misfortune by giving human characteristics to the sky: “Seeing the rose with love bedight, / The envious sky frowned dark.” The speaker expresses her sad…

The New Colossus

…the sense of sight such as, “the huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” This vivid description of masses presents the crowd arriving in America. Personification: Personification is to attribute human…

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

…of the literary devices is given below. Personification: Eliot has used a personification that means to use emotions for inanimate objects. He has personified trees and other objects in the…

Love, a child, is ever crying

…in this poem such as “Never satisfied with having”, “Endless folly is his treasure” and “Let him gain the hand, he’ll leave you.” Personification: Personification is to give human qualities…

To Autumn

…is used in the last stanzas such as, “clammy cells” and “winnowing wind.” Personification: Personification is to give human characteristics to non-human things. Keats has used personification in the opening…

Africa

…of her country. Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. The poet has personified Africa throughout the poem such as; “Thus she had lain sugercane sweet deserts…

Living in Sin

…feelings with furniture such as; “She had thought the studio would keep itself no dust upon the furniture of love.” Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects….

Sometimes When it Rains

…“And wonder why people need clothes”, “Running so fast from rain” and “We we had to undress.” Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. The poet has…

Still Here

Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. The writer has used personification in the middle of the poem, where the poet describes the humanistic quality of sun such…

To The Foot From Its Child

…life cycle of a man through the personification of a foot. “To The Foot From Its Child” As a Representative of Human Life Cycle: The poet opens the poem with…

A Wolf Is at the Laundromat

…the wolf presented in this piece is somewhat ironic. For example, “that’s only there to clean its clothes” and “it is a wash-and-wear-wolf.” Personification: Personification is to give human qualities…

Love’s Philosophy

…end of the first stanza. Personification: Personification means to accord human characteristics to inanimate or animate objects. Shelly has used personification such as, “The fountains mingle with the river”; “The…