492 search results for "personification"

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…

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…

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…

In Flanders Fields

Personification is to accord human characteristics to inanimate objects. John has used personification in line four of the poem, “The larks, still bravely singing, fly”, as if the larks are…

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…

The Bells

…nature. The poet has used emotions as an extended metaphor in the poem to show how our emotion changes with the situation. Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to…

Our Deepest Fear

…born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.” Personification: It means to attribute human qualities to inanimate things or abstract ideas. The poem shows the use…

I started Early — Took my Dog —

…me up” and “And He – He followed – close behind.” Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. The poet has personified water in the poem such…

Nothing Gold Can Stay

…and “So dawn goes down to day.” Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. Frost personified nature throughout the poem. Nature is referred to as “her” which…

All Hallows’ Eve

…in nature. The poet has used sorrow as an extended metaphor to show how some people hide their sorrows silently. Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects….

Sonnet 30

…“I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought” and “And moan th’ expense of many a vanish’d sight.” Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects….

Fire and Ice

…“Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice.” Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. In this poem, “Fire” and “Ice” are capable…

A Dream within a Dream

…Vowel sounds in the same line, such as the sound of /i/ in “In a night, or in a day” and /o/ sound in “Of surf-tormented”. Personification: Personification is to…

This Is My Letter To The World

…speech in which an implied comparison is made between objects different in nature. The poet has used loneliness and isolation as extended metaphors to show her desires. Personification: Personification is…

Chicago

…actual meaning of the words. The poem shows the use of irony in the titles that they show one thing about the city and another thing about its impacts. Personification:…

The Sky Is Low, The Clouds Are Mean

…line of the poem, such as “The Sky is low — the Clouds are mean.” Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. The poet personified nature in…

The Man with the Saxophone

…the city that is sleeping. Another metaphor is of a bird that she considers herself. Personification: It means to attribute human emotions to inanimate objects. The poet used the personification

The Author to Her Book

…of the book, comparing it to a child. Personification: It means the attribution of human emotions to inanimate objects. The poet used the book as a personification in the last…

If You Forget Me

…nature. The poet used different metaphors, such as the moon, the branch, the aroma, the light, and the metals, as if they are little boats. Personification: It means to use…