PERSONIFICATION
PERSONIFICATION
Personification is giving human qualities to
animals or objects.
Example:
a smiling moon, a jovial sun
In "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath, for example, the mirror--the "I" in the
first line--is given the ability to speak,
see and swallow, as well as human attributes such as truthfulness.
I am silver and exact.
I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful--
In John Keats' "To Autumn," the fall season is personified as "sitting
careless on a granary floor" (line 14)
and "drowsed with the fume of poppies" (line 17.)
See Anthropomorphism for more.
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