…ideas of love, peace and truth have been compared to a river that flows. Personification: The poem shows the use of personifications as mind and heart has been shown having…
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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…
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…
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…
Cargo Hulks
…first appeared in 2002 in his collection There are Many Ways: New and Revised Poems. The unique quality of this poetic diction lies in the personifications the poet has used…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Spring
…metaphor the earth that is compared to a person, the sun compared to a life-giving thing and the valleys, hills and woods have been compared to human beings. Personification: The…
On Aging
…use double negatives to show positive or affirmative meanings such as “Don’t bring me no rocking chair” has a double negative. Personification: The poet has shown the use of feet…
Winter
…metaphors of nature such as the dusk, Bear, Orion, and the North wind. Personification: The poet has used Bear, Orion, and other natural elements such as the Northern wind as…
Clark Street Bridge
…of the same place such as; “Now. . . . . Only stars and mist A lonely policeman, Two cabaret dancers, Stars and mist again.” Personification: The poem shows hearts…
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,…
