How Is Personification Used In The Moment

“The Moment” written by Margaret Atwood discusses the meaning of ownership of land throughout the poem. The speaker begins the poem by describing how you, the reader, have first understood how they got to these lands and they proclaim that they own them. The poem then goes on to describe how the trees unloosen there soft arms from around the spectator and whisper that they do not own anything. They are seen as the visitor and not as someone who discovered these new lands. Atwood uses personification and imagery to fully explain the meaning of ownership of land throughout the poem. Personification, as a literary device, is used in “The Moment” to guide the reader into understanding what ownership means. Throughout the second verse of the