…Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. The poet has personified reason in the second quatrain of the poem such as; “My reason, the physician to my…
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Sonnet 116
…made between objects that are different in nature. The poet has used the extended metaphor of love to show the true meaning of love. Personification: Personification is to give human…
This Land is Your Land
…Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. The poet has personified fields and clouds in the poem’s fourth stanza, such as; “And the wheat fields waving and…
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 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.”…
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:…
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…
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…
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…
Annabel Lee
…where he lives with his beloved, “In a kingdom by the sea” and “In her tomb by the sounding sea”. Personification: Personification is to give human characteristics to inanimate objects….
Semantic
…them. These features include personification, simile, imagery, metaphor, and allusion. For example, in William Blake’s poem Night, he uses all semantic features. The poet employs a simile to compare the…
Hey, Diddle, Diddle
…moon”; “The little dog laughed” and “And the dish ran away with the spoon”. Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. For example, “The little dog laughed”…
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…
Auguries of Innocence
…in the same line such as the sound of /oo/ in “To those poor Souls who dwell in Night”. Personification: Personification is to give human attributes to non-human things. For…
The Wreck of the Hesperus
…to exaggerate a statement for the sake of emphasis. For example, the poet has used hyperbole in the second line of the ninth stanza, ‘Against the stinging blast’. Personification: Personification…
Bright Star, Would I Were Stedfast as Thou Art
…example, “Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art.” Here the poem is attempting to compare himself with the star. Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate…
The Highwayman
…throughout the poem. Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. For example, “There was death at every window”. Here ‘death’ is personified. Onomatopoeia: It refers to the…
To an Athlete Dying Young
…literary devices used in this poem has been given below. Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. For example, “Eyes the shady night has shut”. Here, the…
The Arrow and the Song
…and qualities to them symbolic meanings different from the literal meanings. ‘Arrow’ symbolizes rude/offensive words and ‘song’ is a symbol of kindness and pacifying words. Personification: Personification is to give…
See It Through
…For example, “Lift your chin and set your shoulders”; “Plant your feet and take a brace” and “Keep yourself in fighting trim.” Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to…
