Personification

Poe uses personification throughout this poem, Poe uses personification when he describes the angels coveting him and Annabel Lee, and he also uses it when referencing the wind “chilling” Annabel. Another element used within this poem is imagery. Poe uses imagery in the very beginning of the…

mental health as she grew up. This poem in particular was introduced to the public through a biographical introduction of her novel “The Bell Jar”. Through the villanelle structure, Mad Girl’s Love Song uses seemingly endless repetition, dark personification, and references to mythological creatures to touch base with the complications of the human mind, the toxicity of mental illnesses and disorders, and beyond everything: love. The entire poem is in quotation marks, implying that it is being…

implemented the use of many devices in his piece, “Salvation” that made the memory as vivid and intense as the day it happened. Hughes implemented personification throughout his piece to amplify the impassioned, but overwhelming, tone of the church during the revival. Though personification may seem unnecessary to some readers, the use of personification in Hughes’ piece allowed for the reader to understand the magnitude of pressure Hughes felt in the…

Will Come Soft Rains,” Ray Bradbury uses both setting and personification to create a heartbreaking mood. In the short story, Bradbury creates a setting with vivid and heartbreaking language. He uses the contrast of light and dark…

The title of the poem is “Because I could not stop for Death”. Death is the action or fact of being killed; the ending of the life of a person or organism. I feel like the author could have avoided Death. Something happens to the author due to this because the title concludes that something happened with the word “because”. I feel like the author avoided death so long, that it pursued her. The poem could also be about all the times she was close to Death but never accepted Death. Emily…

Sylvia Plath utilizes personification and simile to illustrate women’s struggles with accepting the ‘flaws’ that come with aging. Through the usage of personification, Sylvia Plath describes the harsh truthfulness of a mirror. The mirror says, I have no preconceptions. What ever you see I swallow immediately Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful (Sylvia Plath 1-2). The mirror doesn’t alter the appearance in its reflection; it has no bias.…

. BEG! I say. Beg for your life. Then maybe... just maybe... I will spare your life.” He started at me eyes as big as the moon (Simile). “Beg” I say with an edge to my voice. I felt a chill run down my spine as the wind picked up and howled (Personification). He drops to the ground…“THUD” his knees hit hard... so hard I didn’t know if they had broke or not. He turns his head, to hide the tears. The tears of sorrow, for never coming to get me, for never calling, for not being there for me……

Symbolism and Personification in Poetry Poetry in some way, shape or form, gives realistic ideas to even objects that reflect upon an everyday part of life by using symbolism and personification. When reviewing “Divorce” by Billy Collins the cutlery is personified and distinctively used throughout the whole short poem as (come back to this). In chapter four, Johnson and Arp tells the reader “Personification consists of giving the attributes of a human being to an animal, an object, or a…

pictures in their writings. Due to this Hawthorne wrote very detailed and descriptive poems. By using very detailed and descriptive writing ways he was able to capture the roughness of life in his poem “The Ocean”. He did this by using imagery, personification, and rhyming. One way Hawthorne wrote very detailed poems was by using imagery. When authors use imagery it helps the reader be able to visualize what is going on and what he visualizes while he is writing. One use of imagery in the poem…

symbolism, imagery and personification to develop the theme of trauma. For instance, Poe uses symbolism to create a different view between the him and the rest of the world. For example, "From my childhood's hour I have not been / As others were" (line 1). Due to the loss…