Personification
Definition:
Personification is a figure of speech
in which human qualities, feelings, or actions are given / attributed to
non-human entities such as animals, objects, or abstract ideas.
Explanation:
This ornament gives life to lifeless objects.
It makes writing more vivid and imaginative by allowing readers to connect with
abstract concepts or lifeless objects as if they were alive.
Through personification, poets and
authors bring nature, emotions, or even inanimate objects closer to human
experience, making them relatable.
Examples
from Literature:
1.
William Wordsworth in the poem ‘Daffodils’ – “Ten
thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.”
(The daffodils
are personified as if they are dancing joyfully.)
2.
John Milton in ‘On His Blindness’ – “Patience…
that murmur, soon replies.”
(The abstract
quality of patience is personified as if it can speak.)
3.
Emily Dickinson in ‘Because I could not stop for Death’ – “Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for
me –”
(Death is
personified as a gentleman who comes to escort the speaker.)
4.
Shakespeare in “Sonnet 18” – “Rough
winds do shake the darling buds of May.”
(Winds are personified as if they
have the power to ‘shake’ like a living being.)
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