…in nature. The poet compares guns with the brides in the opening line. For example, “Birdshooting season the men /make marriages with their guns.” Personification: The poet has personified guns…
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Winter Night: Edinburgh
…poet has used the motifs of light, blackness, and darkness in this poem to demonstrate the domination of modern lifestyle in modern cities. Personification: The poet has used the personifications…
A Streetcar Named Desire
…motifs of the play, A Streetcar Named Desire, are light, bathing and drunkenness. Personification: The play shows examples of personifications such as, Faded white stairs ascend to the entrances of…
The Outsiders
…that the writer has put paradoxical ideas or things together. Personification: The examples of personifications are given below, i. The pool was empty now in the fall, but the fountain…
Notes from Underground
…the first one shows two contradictory ideas of being capable and incapable and the second shows man and woman given in the same sentences. Personification: The examples of personifications are…
Silas Marner
…Personification: The examples of personifications are given below, i. In the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses — and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-lace,…
The Color Purple
…novel is narrated from the first person point of view, who happens to be Celie, the protagonist of the novel. Personification: The novel shows examples of personifications such as, i….
Everyone Sang
…bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done.” 7. Personification: The poem shows the use of personifications in the first stanza as the writer attributes humanistic…
The Lost Mistress
…The poem shows the metaphors of sparrows to show the revival of love and the use of buds to show the temporariness of time. Personification: The poet has used the…
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…
The Rainy Day
…is his friend. Personification: The poet has personified the day, the heart, wind, and thoughts as if they have life and emotions of their own. Polysyndeton: The poem shows the…
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…
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…
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…
