Acquainted With The Night Personification

Literary elements are tools and techniques of language that are used to convey meaning. Poets use them to employ depth and emotion in their art. Symbolism is often used to express an abstract idea the poet is trying to illustrate. The rhythmic verses of poetry are chosen specifically because of the larger context and connections they can carry to the reader, who must make individual associations based on their own personal experiences. Isolation can be depicted from Robert Frost’s “Acquainted with the Night” by the subject’s two non-encounters with other people. First was avoiding eye contact with the watchman followed by the cry that was later clarified was not meant for him. Frost emphasizes this seclusion by using the first-person term “I” at the beginning of seven of the lines. All of which are subtle cues that symbolize the loneliness the poet is try to describe.
Writers use personification to help establish mood and to build imagery in a piece of writing.
What personification does best is that it connects a reader with the object that is being described. Instinctively we humanize inanimate objects in order to make them more relatable. Personification also helps to boost emotion and can make plain sentences more interesting when used effectively. In Emily Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” death is treated like a person taking on the characteristics of a carriage driver. The first stanza reads “Because I could not stop for death- He kindly stopped for me- The carriage held but just ourselves- And Immortality” Dickinson portrays death as a gentleman, very polite and courteous. They stroll pass a school, the fields of grain, and the setting sun ultimately leading to her grave. Dickinson’s use of personification exposes her thoughts about death and her comfort ability with
it.
Authors use metaphors in many types of writing and they often serve to help the reader understand a character, object or point of view by comparing those subjects to something the listeners already understand. Metaphors can express ideas for which there are no words or when one word does not suffice. It gives a sentence imagery, action, and description. For example the two roads in Robert Frost's the “Road Not Taken” symbolize the choice between two paths in life. The line “Two roads diverged in yellow wood” refers to the conflicting paths the solitary narrator encounters on his journey which represent the difficult choices we must often make alone. In conclusion for every road we take there is a road we do not take either way it will make significant changes to our lives.