Personification

While putting aside her daily work and entering a carriage ride, a girl realizes that death is nothing to be looked down upon, but to be appreciative of. In Emily Dickinson’s poem “Because I could not stop for Death”, the speaker utilizes personification, capitalization, and punctuation to illuminate the meaning of her passing to the eternal afterlife. In the poem, Death isn’t frightening or an intimidating reaper looking to take the souls of people. It is rather a gentle guide helping to…

Poe was young and his mom died when Poe was three (Grubbs). Some of Poe’s other famous works are “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and “The Tell-Tale Heart." In Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, “The Raven” he uses context, symbols, forms and devices, and personification to show how to display emotion through writing. In “The Raven” Poe uses a lot of types of context to invoke emotion to the reader. He uses religious context to allude to heaven and hell (Dhahir). He uses symbols that could…

The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees.Is part of this amazeing poem. The Highwayman is a good poem it has metaphors, similes,repetition, and personification. Everything in this poem was lined up and very interesting. It has a lot of details and lots of repetition. It has a good variety of words that most people wouldn’t think of using .It was wrote by Alfred Noyes . When the highwayman comes riding he hits the shutters with his whip. He whistled a tune to the window ,and who…

In the poems “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning” by John Donne and “Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas, death is presented as a life lesson through personification, allegory, and visual imagery, rather than a negative connotation based on prejudiced biasing. In these poems, the authors use personification to prove that death is a life lesson. Death is a valuable occurrence in life. People find it easy to find death in its negative state.…

snake. The ghost reveals this in hopes of encouraging Hamlet to take revenge against Claudius for he had taken his father’s crown and wife. Shakespeare uses several literary devices like personification, metaphor, and imagery to further enhance this scene between Hamlet and the ghost. Shakespeare utilizes personification within this scene by illuminating inanimate objects to create a better understanding to readers of the intensity…

One example within ‘Daffodils’ is the personification of the clouds, with one of them being labelled as “lonely”. A cloud could not possibly be lonely, so it gives the reader the impression that the narrator has been confined to a solitary sentence even though he longs to be accepted into society and into a group. Many however argue that the most important example of personification within ‘Daffodils’ is “tossing their heads in sprightly dance”. This is significant…

depicts his mental feeling, “I cannot describe to you how the eternal twinkling of the stars weighed upon me, and how I listened to every blast of wind, as if it were a dull ugly siroc on its way to consume me” (Shelley 151). The author uses both personification and simile to describe his wild and unfortunate thoughts. First of all, she uses “eternal twinkling of the star” to infer God because God is omnipresent. He supervises every actions,that made by human being, from the sky. It is likely…

Riddle 5 is a description of a shield, and is told from the view-point of shield. The personification of the shield gives a new perspective of the item that soldier use in order to themselves. “Wounded I am, and weary with fighting” (1). The shield is unable to feel, but by saying it is wounded and weary shows how the shield has been to many fight, and is battered and tired. Wars have been around since the beginning of time, and the shield has been around possible just as long. The shield,…

Nowhere is this concept more evident than in Coelho's novel, The Alchemist. The Alchemist reveals that one must have the courage to follow their destiny, for otherwise, they will hold themselves back from happiness. Coelho uses foil, symbolism, and personification to further develop this theme. Today’s readers can apply Santiago’s story to their own life, as a lesson to follow their calling. Throughout The Alchemist, Coelho uses foil characters to represent how Santiago’s life could be if he…

Another, lesser-known personification was Ankou, known in Breton mythology as well as in Cornish, Welsh and Norman folklore. Ankou appears in many tales gathered from oral tradition. As such his description does not always correspond from one tale to another. He is always described as a tall and thin figure clad in black Breton garments, sometimes with glowing eyes, wearing a large felt hat concealing his face, standing up in a creaking cart similar to the ones used during the Middle-Age to…