How Does Mary Oliver Use Of Personification

Teasdale writes, “robins will wear their feathery fire” (5) and this example of personification is probably the most important because, evidently, the phrase also contains imagery making it more impactful. Otherwise, when concentrating on the use of personification, without the humans to wear the clothes around the world. So stating that robins will “wear” something, just tends to the setting of a world with the disease of all humans. “And spring herself, when she woke at dawn” (11) is an important use of personification used by the poet. Spring is an unanitmit and intangible object that does have the ability to wake, nevertheless, humans can no longer wake in “There Will Come Soft Rains.” Through the poem much personification happens, but one of the first is, “And Frogs in the pools singing at night” (3). Accordingly, only humans can sign, yet Teasdale had the frogs signing to prove, even farther, the fact that without humans on the earth, not everything would change. A use of personification can really impact a poem, and Teasdale's use of personification didn't only impact the poem but brought a lot of irony and

As the poem begins, the reader immediately visualizes someone playing outside in a “polka dot dress,” and this someone is the personification of poetry (1). Forman uses

Jamaica Kincaid wrote “A Walk to the Jetty”, a story which uses multiple literary elements to express greater detail of Annie’s life in Antigua. She was prepared to leave her homeland and move onwards with her life by moving to England to become a nurse. As Annie was about to leave her resented homeland, she says, “‘I shall never see this again’ stabbed at me” (Kincaid 40). This is an example of personification because words cannot physically stab someone, but it could’ve meant that she felt some kind of mental discomfort after saying her piece of her mind. This shows that she’s afraid of going to leaving everything she knows behind in Antigua and start a new life in England even though her memories in her homeland wasn’t pleasant to her.

Cynthia Lee Kotana says it perfectly when she states in her excerpt, "In the first descriptive octave, personification, the giving of human attributes to inanimate objects, is used to drive home the persuasive mood of the poem." (Kotana, Paragraph 6, Sentence1). She is stating that it is at this point in the poem where Roethke begins to paint a picture of the idea he wants to get across to the reader. It seems possible that he was trying to switch the roles of the humans and the inanimate objects. After all, if it was possible for a pencil to feel sadness, or for a manila folder to feel misery, then is it not possible for a human to feel absolutely nothing? The same nothing that we know all of the inanimate objects around us feel? This was a very great technique used by Roethke in trying to bring the reader to look a little deeper into his poem than just to see "misery" and "sadness" and to think what a dark poem it is. It is truly a great skill and takent to be able to make the reader see that he is bringing the "Dead" to life and the "living" to absolute

“Early frost sits heavily on the grass, and turns barbed wire into a string of stars” (86) Ackerman combines two ordinary things like frost and barbed wire, and uses an analogy to compare them to something as beautiful as a string of stars. “Water-loving maples put on a symphonic display of scarlets” (87) Diane is using personification, by giving the maples human like abilities such as putting up a display, or loving water. In this sentence she also uses subjective description when she uses the word symphonic to refer to the way the maples show their colors, there is nothing musical, but it is calming.

Personification is figurative language in which an animal, object, or other idea are given human characteristics. A good example of the utilization of personification is in the song, the artists sing, “Thought love was dead but now you’re changing my mind.” (Featuring Adam Levine, Gym Class Heroes. “Stereo Hearts.” The Papercut Chronicles II. By Travis McCoy, Adam Levine, Benjamin Levin, Ammar Malik, and Dan Omelio. Fueled by Ramen LLC, 2011). Obviously, love is not a human being, and it cannot die. Therefore, this is usage of personification, as the human quality of mortality is given to an abstract idea, love. While rather old, this use of classic personification works well within the song, as the lead singer conveys his thoughts that the

In this poem “ The Wind Begun to Rock the Grass “ by Emily Dickinson, the tone is serious and dark. The setting is in a little farm town maybe a long time ago because there are wagons being used in the poem. The literary device that I chose is personification. It uses personification when it is talking about nature and animals doing human-like things.

The use of personification in the poem is to explain to the reader that humanity is “button”, so meaning to keep, our daily

The poem “How to Paint A Water Lily” by Ted Hughes is a beautiful piece of work. Just like a painter would put very fine details with every stroke of the paintbrush, so does Hughes with each stanza to build this beautiful poem. Although the poem’s title makes the reader think the poem is about a water lily it is really about the environment around it. Hughes uses personification to describe the scene the speaker is witnessing in comparison of the water lily.

In the poem, "The Groundhog," the language of the poem reflects the changing observations and feelings of the speaker as he considers the transformation of the dead groundhog. With diction, imagery, and tone, along with the speaker’s point of view, the speaker reveals his thought that the world is in steady change; changes in which things in the end disintegrate, or vanish. The speaker feels so passionate over the proceeding with changes of the groundhog in light of the fact that he passionately hates change. It makes him feel that he is not in control of himself, or anything in particular. The author utilizes radiant and creative expression to portray imagery that is being contrasted.

T.S. Elliot and John Donne use paradox and personification in their poems. A paradox is a statement that seems to be false but upon further examination proves to be true. Personification is the action giving a nonhuman object or idea human characteristics. The use of a paradox in the poem “The Hollow Men” by T.S. Elliot helps convey the mood of the poem by communicating to the reader a more profound meaning. The use of literary device in “Death Be Not Proud” by John Donne also helps express the mood of the poem. It does so through the use of a literary personification. In poetry, paradox and personification can be used to convey the mood of a poem.

            The Creation by James Weldon Johnson also uses personification to give his poem more life and to tell a story. Johnson tells the story of creation from the Bible. He says as the trees were formed they would stretch out their arms and point their finger to the sky. Both poems

This is to personify the entire poem, to make it much more real to the

Marianne is a woman recognized as the personification of liberty and reason to the French, and she can also be interpreted as the Goddess of Liberty. It is a symbol against all types of dictatorship and an icon of freedom and democracy. She is displayed in many places in France, holding a place of honor in several town halls and law courts throughout the country. The profile of Marianne stands out to the French government as the official logo of the country. She is engraved on French euro coins and appears on postage stamps.

In Wright’s poem, she effectively uses personification so that the viewers can have a more profound understanding when she conveys her ideas of the sea, lines such as, “muscle of arm, muscle of