…that one thing is another. For example, “With milk from Nature’s rugged breast” (line 17) shows the speaker metaphorically describing Nature’s resources as nourishment. Personification: It is the attribution of…
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The Soul Has Bandaged Moments
…absence of spoken expression. Personification: It means assigning human qualities or attributes to non-human entities. For example, “The Horror welcomes her, again” (line 23) shows that the Horror is being…
A River
…image. Personification: It gives human characteristics to inanimate objects or abstract ideas. For example, line 36 “the river has water enough to be poetic” (line 36) shows the river as…
Diving Into the Wreck
…the wreck to something “more permanent than fish or weed,” suggesting its enduring presence amidst the changing elements. Personification: It is the attribution of human characteristics to non-human entities. For…
The Lotos-Eaters
…of trees or bushes) to a woven fabric. Personification: It is the attribution of human qualities to non-human entities. For example, the poem has mentioned the sun charmed in line…
Examples Of Figurative Language In Children’s Poetry and Rhymes
…shift of imagery in the next line when he fell. The contrast is dramatic and immediate. There is hyperbole used as humor; otherwise, it’s just a funny poem. Personification is…
The River God
…the objects that are different. The poem has used the metaphor of the river to show how nature could be loving as well as destructive. Personification: The poet has used…
Chaise Lounge
…it refers to the title of the poem, too. However, the ‘longue’ has been used in non-standard spelling and as a personification as if it has a life of its…
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…
Postcards from God
…between the objects that are different. The poem shows the use of metaphors such as battered streets, disjointed times, images, and postcards. Personification: The poet has shown the use of…
The Pigeons
…as staccato, busybodies, and dimples. Personification: The poet has shown the use of summer, dimples, and wind have life and emotions of their own. The poet has personified them. Symbolism:…
The Pearl
…glory, and expressions. Personification: The poet has used personifications of glory, nature, fire, and stars as if they have life and emotions of their own. Symbolism: Symbolism is using symbols…
Peace of Wild Things
…in which an implied comparison is made between the objects that are different. The poem shows metaphor the metaphor of despair and fear. Personification: The poem shows despair, fear, and…
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…
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…
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…
