…God! I’d rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn.” Personification: Personification is to attribute human characteristics to non-human or even inanimate objects. The poet has used personification at…
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Sonnet 73
…Consonance: Consonance is the repetition of the same consonant sounds in the same line, such as /b/ sound in “Which by-and-by black night doth take away.” Personification: Personification is to…
Spare
…means to attribute human emotions to inanimate objects. The poet used the personification of leaves as if they were creating a splash of water. It is an indirect personification. Symbolism:…
London Bridge Is Falling Down
…objects different in nature. London Bridge is compared to a woman, “my fair lady.” Personification: It means to attribute human emotions to inanimate objects. Personification: “Wood and clay will wash…
Living in Sin
…compares feelings with furniture such as, “She had thought the studio would keep itself no dust upon the furniture of love.” Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate…
Sometimes When it Rains
…wonder why people need clothes”, “Running so fast from rain” and “We we had to undress.” Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. The poet used a…
Anthropomorphism
…beings, natural phenomena, or objects. Difference Between Anthropomorphism and Personification Anthropomorphism is also a type of personification that gives human characteristics to non-humans or objects, especially animals. However, there is…
I Carry Your Heart with Me
…repetition of consonant sounds in the same line such as the sound of /ing/ “by only me is your doing, my darling”. Personification: Personification is to accord human attributes to…
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
…Here Wordsworth compares the endless row of daffodils with countless stars. Personification: Personification is to attribute human characteristics to lifeless objects. The poet has personified “daffodils” in the third line…
Ode to a Nightingale
…south”. Here he compares liquid with the southern country weather. Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to non-human things. Keats has used personification in line twenty-nine, “where beauty cannot…
A Visit from St. Nicholas
…so lively and quick” and /o/ sound in “On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donner and ” Personification: Personification is to attribute human characteristics to inanimate things. The poet has used…
Mother and Child
…uses personification to explain her misfortune by giving human characteristics to the sky: “Seeing the rose with love bedight, / The envious sky frowned dark.” The speaker expresses her sad…
Africa
…of her country. Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. The poet has personified Africa throughout the poem such as; “Thus she had lain sugercane sweet deserts…
Love, a child, is ever crying
…you.” Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. The poet personified Love such as “He will triumph in your wailing.” Simile: It is a device used to…
A Wolf Is at the Laundromat
…the wolf presented in this piece is somewhat ironic. For example, “that’s only there to clean its clothes” and “it is a wash-and-wear-wolf.” Personification: Personification is to give human qualities…
In the Bleak Midwinter
…line. For example, “In the bleak midwinter a stable place sufficed The Lord God Almighty, Jesus Christ.” Personification: Personification is to give human characteristics to inanimate objects. The poet has…
One Art
…opening of the last stanza, “Even losing you.” The speaker has used an ironic tone for her loss, that even losing her love was not hard to master. Personification: Personification…
To The Foot From Its Child
…life cycle of a man through the personification of a foot. “To The Foot From Its Child” As a Representative of Human Life Cycle: The poet opens the poem with…
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…