Examples Of Personification In Sleeping In The Forest By Lucille Clifton

In the poem by Joy Harjo called “Eagle Poem,” Harjo talks about prayer and life and how they revolve around mother-nature. She suggests that while being one with nature, we feel we are in a place in which we haven’t imagined and the things in which we would love to do in that magnificent and calming place. After one reads the poem, he/she enjoys the lyrical type of it. This is because “Eagle Poem” sticks to one idea and extends it throughout the entire poem. For instance, it talks about prayer, nature, and animals from start to finish.

Through this poem Blake explores the themes of love and the human spirit through the personification of a clod of clay and a pebble in a brook. Blake’s work was intended to show the two opposing states of the human soul. Blake was a reserved individual with very few companions, which allowed him to see things which people usually don’t notice. This poem expresses thoughts towards innocence and experience using light and dark images. Blake uses a clod of clay to symbolize love as pure and divine, as if it is young and submissive. It marks how passionate love can become in a very unrealistic and humane viewpoint. The clod of clay symbolizes the softness and tender of nature as it changes shape. The Clod is always suffering, as it is "trodden" with the cattle’s feet, but it is aware of its place in the world, accepts fate

The poets use personification to create a message about nature in the poems "Earth is a Living Thing," by Lucille Clifton "Sleeping

In Ann Petry’s novel The Street, the wind plays the fundamental adversary, who purposely plays a violent and dangerous force. Through the use of imagery and personification, Petry successfully illustrates the relentless nature of the cold wind, further complementing Lutie Johnson’s auditory experience and strong-willed character. By using specific imagery, Petry portrays the harshness and brutality of the cold that the protagonist is forced to overcome in her endeavor for a home. For instance, the presence of the “cold November wind” becomes overly evident on 116th street as it is enveloped in a chaotic and turbulent state. Trash is flying everywhere, chicken and pork bones are on the curb.

In the novel The Street by Ann Petry shares the central theme of the wind being an oppressor to cause people to walk away from the Seventh and Eighth street. The streets were a mess since there was “announcements,” “old envelopes” and “enclosed sandwiches” that were on the floor. The wind has human characteristic that is seen as strong that persuades people to stay away from the block. Petry uses imagery to make the readers visualise the streets lonely and a total mess. As well he uses Figure of language to make the readers understand the wind is using it’s power to dominant people decisions.

Authors use many different writing techniques in their writing to help convey their meaning, visualize what is happening, and help the reader feel what the author was feeling in a stronger way. Elie Wiesel effectively uses narrative techniques in his book Night, to show his loss of faith and identity. Night is about a boy named Elie and how when he was only fifteen years old, got sent to Auschwitz concentration camp. He tells a story of his personal experiences, like losing his parents, siblings, friends, and his whole entire previous life. He talks about how badly he and millions of others were treated and his story of survival. In his memoir Night, Elie Wiesel uses personification and repetition to enhance his main ideas of loss of faith

I also enjoyed this piece because it uses a lot of literary techniques. She uses personification when she is referring to the atmosphere in Scotland “where plants were allowed to grow separately and

The Birthday Party by Katharine Brush utilizes personification and imagery to help communicate her message. Her message was that woman in the 1940’s were mistreated and how society saw woman.

In the poem “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop the speaker uses a lot of imagery to try to describe to the reader the hardships that this fish must have faced throughout its life. In a rusted, oil leaking, rented boat the speaker hauls up an enormous fish and then stares at it going into detail on its appearance. As you continue to read the speaker begins an ironic description of the fish. The fish was old, already escaping five separate fishers, he excepts his fate and does not fight to be freed again. He is painted as helpless because of this as you can see when the speaker says “He didn’t fight.

The world has several great poets and numerous mind-blowing works, each with its own way of portraying its own message using symbolism to represent lessons of everyday life. Jane Flanders wrote the poem named “Cloud Painter” she shows the world from an artistic way, using a painter and his canvas to help the reader picture the true meaning behind the words and images created. Robert Frost takes on the same idea, but uses a less complex example so that it makes his work easy to understand while not revealing the actual meaning of the poem. Frost and Flanders are just two of the many poets that use nature as a way of explaining the very lessons in life. Each poet has a different way of presenting similar images but from a different perspective. Poems are short stories that have a meaning behind them without revealing them in obvious ways. Although some are confusing and may use a different style there are a few that present the same message even if they are written by a different poet. “Cloud Painter” written by Jane Flanders uses the clouds and other subjects of nature. Such as trees and the hills. to help the reader picture the true meaning behind her poem. Robert Frost's poem by the name of “Nothing Gold Can Stay” also takes the nature route to convey the point of his poems words and their Each has a unique way of creating an idea that most can relate to emotionally and physically.

The story “The Flowers” by Alice Walker was the best example of description. The author gives really good detail and makes it easy to picture the story in your head. An example of a point where she used good detail is in the first paragraph when she said, “... made each day a golden surprise that caused excited little tremors to run up her jaws.” the author could have just said that harvesting made her excited but she made us feel how excited she was. Another point where she used good detail was in the third paragraph when she described when she saw the water rising up and going down stream as “... tiny white bubbles disrupt the thin black scale of soil…”. Also another point that caught my attention where she used great description was when

Although both Dickinson and Baudelaire write to motivate readers to appreciate nature, Baudelaire uses personification to convey the symbolism of nature. In, “Correspondances,” Baudelaire begins the poem personifying nature as a temple that can communicate with us. He says, “The pillars of nature’s temple are alive/ and sometimes yield perplexing messages” (1-2). This personification is significant because nature is not talking with us, but figuratively it is telling us something about ourselves that

In “A Doll House” by Henrik Ibsen was created during 1800s time period. This play helps shine a light on the gender roles of the 1800s while also creating a twist that was uncommon for this period. During this time period, women were left home to oversee the domestic duties, while men went to commuted to work (Hughes). Men were seen as physically superior but morally inferior to women; which is also portrayed within this book (Hughes). This play marks the beginning of Henrik Ibsen’s realist period, which he explored the ordinary lives of small-town people (Kirszner and Mandell 881). This “modern tragedy” helped make Ibsen famous internationally because of the real-life story it captured (Kirszner and Mandell 882). Henrik Ibsen uses an array of literary devices to help keep the reader captivated from beginning to end. Three of the most prominent literary devices used by Henrik Ibsen are symbolism, foreshadowing, and an array of themes. These literary devices help transform a basic play into a complex story of lies and deception.

"Gold" by Pat Mora, "Sleeping in the Forest" by Mary Oliver, and "the earth is a living thing" by Lucille Clifton created a message using personification about nature. Pat Mora uses personification by a human giving non-human things human abilities. Here is some personification text evidence from Pat Mora's '' When the sun paints the desert with its gold.'' This part of the message says that the sun is a artist painting on the sand with gold paint like an artist paints a picture of nature. Mary Oliver uses personification, text evidence by giving human qualities to inanimate objects. Mary Oliver explains personification by saying " the earth remembered me," the earth remembers her out of billions of people in the world she is the special

At one time or another, every person has experienced the beauty of summer. In this time of the year, nature is full of life, the weather is at its finest, and the paramount joys of life can be experienced to their fullest. Then the fall comes, the trees turn lovely shades of red and yellow, and the wind offers a nice chill breeze for relief. Unfortunately, seasons change and the beauty that people once experienced vanishes. People focusing only on the material and petty aspects of life, rather than the beauty around them, will let life pass them, missing out on the true wonders of the world. In his poem “To Autumn,” John Keats utilizes imagery to express the importance of indulging in the beauties of nature, while alive, because humans are mortal beings bound by the limits of time.