…poem. Personification: It means giving human qualities to non-human entities or abstract concepts. For example, “she laughed his joy she cried his grief” (line 14) shows the personifications of joy…
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Nameless Pain
…that one thing is another. For example, “With milk from Nature’s rugged breast” (line 17) shows the speaker metaphorically describing Nature’s resources as nourishment. Personification: It is the attribution of…
The Soul Has Bandaged Moments
…absence of spoken expression. Personification: It means assigning human qualities or attributes to non-human entities. For example, “The Horror welcomes her, again” (line 23) shows that the Horror is being…
A River
…image. Personification: It gives human characteristics to inanimate objects or abstract ideas. For example, line 36 “the river has water enough to be poetic” (line 36) shows the river as…
Diving Into the Wreck
…the wreck to something “more permanent than fish or weed,” suggesting its enduring presence amidst the changing elements. Personification: It is the attribution of human characteristics to non-human entities. For…
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…
The Villain
…wind compared to a villain. Both are unique metaphors used in this poem. Personification: The poet has used joy and wind as if they have life and emotions of their…
The Sick Rose
…that he is calling the rose, signifying it as a personification. He states that the rose is sick and that an invisible worm has reached it during the howling storm…
Subway Wind
…to a man and waters compared to sleeping people. Personification: The poet has personified the wind, the laugh, and the fields as if they have life and emotions of their…
Quiet Work
…“Too great for haste, too high for rivalry” and then “Laborers that shall not fail, when man is gone.” Personification: The poet has shown the use of Nature and the…
Postcards from God
…between the objects that are different. The poem shows the use of metaphors such as battered streets, disjointed times, images, and postcards. Personification: The poet has shown the use of…
The Pigeons
…as staccato, busybodies, and dimples. Personification: The poet has shown the use of summer, dimples, and wind have life and emotions of their own. The poet has personified them. Symbolism:…
The Pearl
…glory, and expressions. Personification: The poet has used personifications of glory, nature, fire, and stars as if they have life and emotions of their own. Symbolism: Symbolism is using symbols…
Peace of Wild Things
…in which an implied comparison is made between the objects that are different. The poem shows metaphor the metaphor of despair and fear. Personification: The poem shows despair, fear, and…
On Not Shoplifting Louise Bogan’s The Blue Estuaries
…poems, books, and swans as they are compared with living things. Personification: The poet has shown the use of a book, poems, texts, and words as if they are living…
Summons
…the objects that are different. The poem shows the use of metaphors such as the clouds have been compared to lovers. Personification: The poet has shown the clouds as if…
What is Success
…old walls are like the swings. Oxymoron: It means to show contradictory ideas put together such as “false friends.” Personification: The poet has shown the use of life as if…
Ol’ Higue
…bones to compare with some old thing. Personification: The poet has shown the use of old bones and dread as if they have life and emotions of their own. Rhetorical…
The Runaway
…fellow at all. He’s running away” and “When other creatures have gone to stall and bin.” Personification: The poem shows the use of personifications as the poet devotes several lines…
Southern History
…made between the objects that are different. The poem shows the use of metaphor screens and textbooks, comparing them with the world and life. Personification: The poet has shown the…
