492 search results for "personification"

Tall Ambrosia

…poet used spirituality as an extended metaphor in the poem to show how people are leaving their true selves with time. Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate…

Checking Out Me History

…tell me bout Dick Whittington and he cat” and “Dem tell me bout de dish run away with de spoon.” Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects….

I Am Offering this Poem

…a person through thick and thin.” Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. The poet has personified trees and trees in the poem, such as “in dense…

Old Ironsides

…harpies of the shore shall pluck”. Personification: Personification is to give human characteristics to inanimate objects. For example, “And many an eye has danced to see” as if the eyes…

On The Sea

…poet used the healing power of nature as an extended metaphor to show how it takes our woes and fills our hearts with unknown pleasure. Personification: Personification is to give…

Love is Not All – Sonnet XXX

…own. Personification: It means to attribute human emotions to inanimate objects. The poet used the personification of pain that pins down and want or desire that nags a person. Symbolism:…

The Windmill

…nature. The poet has used the metaphor of a woman for the windmill. Personification: It means to attribute human emotions to inanimate objects. The poet has used the personification of…

And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name

…for poetry that has approached him. Personification: It means to attribute human emotions to inanimate objects. The poet used the personification of austerity to show that it collides, showing its…

The Buried Life

…has used the metaphor of a river for life. Personification: It means to attribute human emotions to inanimate objects. The poet has used the personification of fate as having the…

Balloons

…to talk about childhood innocence and dreams. Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. The poet has personified balloons throughout the poem, such as; “Since Christmas they…

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

…culture before the slavery period. Personification: Personification means to give human attributes to inanimate objects. For example, the Mississippi River is personified, “I heard the singing of the Mississippi when…

I Hear America Singing

…women. The reader can visualize each profession while reading. Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. For example, “I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.”…

She Walks in Beauty

…Trees” represents the dark hair of the lady that adds further to her beauty. Personification: Personification is to attribute human qualities to animals or inanimate objects. The poet has personified…

Trees

…the same line in successive words such as the sound of /h/ in “A nest of robins in her hair”. Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to non- human…

I Love You

…and clarity. Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to non-human things. For examples, lips are personified in the first line, “I love your lips when they’re wet with wine,…

When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be

…grains to language or literature, “Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain”. Personification: Personification is to give human characteristics to non-human things. The first example is seen in the…

Death, Be Not Proud

…has used various literary devices to allow readers to try to find more interpretations. The analysis of some of the literary devices is given below. Personification: Personification means to attribute…

The Raven

…a demon’s that is dreaming.” The poet here compares Raven’s eyes with fire and demon. Personification: Personification is a device that gives human attributes to non-living things or animals such…

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

…Americans or free people, while the caged bird is the metaphor of African Americans and their captivity in the social norms. Personification: Maya Angelou has used personification such as “sighing…