Collins Use Of Personification In Introduction To Poetry

In "Introduction to poetry", the poet uses personification at the end of his poem. He uses a lot of it in the last two stanzas. Collins writes, But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means (12-16).
When he writes this, It shows personification. Poetry takes on characteristics that can only happen to beings that are alive. It can be tied down to a chair and torture, an action that doing to an inanimate object would have no meaning. It is when he states a confession, that personification really shines through. An inanimate object cannot
It is almost magical, like Pinocchio. The poem starts with poetry as an inanimate object and as the poem progresses, poetry becomes alive and grows. When the poem starts, poetry the reader can see it as an inanimate object in “I ask them to take a poem / and hold it up to the light / like a color slide” (line 1-3). This shows how poetry can be seen as an inanimate object because poetry can be held up and be examined by the audience. Poetry is something that you can inspect on a closer detail to get the true values and meaning behind it. By examining the details, lines placement and stanzas break. The reader gets a sense of what is emphasized in the poetry. As the poem progresses, it becomes more alive. In stanza five, Collins states “I want them to waterski / across the surface of a poem / waving at the author’s name on the shore” (Line 9-11). Poetry grows because instead of just being seen as just a color slide, he now portrays it as the sea. This shows its growth because the sea is known to both an inanimate and an animate object. In the end, poetry can be seen taking on a more humanoid form. It reaches its last stage of growth. It is at the end when poetry, can now be tortured and