Personification is a way for a poet to enter the world of metaphor. It is a trope in which abstractions, animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human character, traits, abilities, or reactions. Personification is particularly common in poetry, but it appears in nearly all types of artful writing.
Talking flowers and singing rain! Impossible - unless they are part of a William Blake's or Langston Hughes' poem.
Response Stance
How does personification allows the reader to sense more of the emotion the poet tries to create and share?
Personification in poetry conveys and emphasizes unusual and vivid images. The use of strong word association in personification changes the mode of thought and adds variation, embellishment and adornment to poetic and literary works. Invite students to personify inanimate objects in their writing of poetry, while considering:
- How do you want the reader to feel about your inanimate object?
- What mood or tone are you trying to create in the poem as a whole? As writers of poetry, one must be careful to choose the appropriate emotions/sensations/actions/physical attributes for the object that would convey the desired feeling, mood and tone.
My name is Matthew D.
ReplyDeleteBlake's poem personified a few things including
a lonely cloud.
my name is Brock c.
ReplyDeleteIt was so good it was the best poem ever heard
It was about clouds,butterflies,and plants
hi my name is Aaron P.
ReplyDeleteBlake's poem is about a guy walking alone beside the lake.
my name is justine.c
ReplyDeleteWilliam Blake wrote about nature and I liked the Robert Frost's poem about the the road not taken.
my name is ivan K.
ReplyDeleteBlake's poem is about him walkeing alone in a field. he uses lots of pesonifaction.
my name is nathan b.
ReplyDeletewrite about blakes poem it is about him walking alone near a lake alone where daffodiles grow under a tree dancing
My name is Tony L.
ReplyDeleteBlake's poem was awesome because
he described the star throwing their
heads and swaying in the wind.
Hi my name Nabila.A
ReplyDeleteThe poem that Blake wrote was good and had a lot of personifcation in the poem. Blake said he was alone. Blake's poems are the same topic as the poems by Robert Frost.
My name Ellery.M
ReplyDeleteThe poem that Blake wrote was good and had a lot of personifcation in it.
I Really like that Blake wrote lots of personification.
ReplyDeleteI like how personification lets objects and animals talk and do some things a human can do.
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