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    A Message To The Moon

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    devices have been used thought this poem to create feelings and depth‚ including symbolism and personification and alliteration. Personification has been used to create the bond between the poet and the moon. The sentence “You’re not as dead as you look‚ they’re after you” is an example of personification as it is implying that the poet is talking to/sending messages to the moon as if it is a human. Personification is also used in the section of the poem where it states; “They’ll build refineries on your

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    the environment. In the poem ‘Train Journey’‚ the themes of Australian landscape and environment are portrayed with the use of personification and apostrophe to instil a sense of life in the landscape. This is displayed throughout the poem‚ where observations of Australian landscapes are seen from the position of the train. In the first stanza‚ the personification “out of the confused hammering dark of the train” highlights her difficulty of staying awake‚ proving that the majority of the poem

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    you details of his or her story in mysterious ways? Markus Zusak created a novel of a girl observed by “Death”‚ in the town of Mulching Germany. Zusak’s novel‚ “The Book Thief” included different types of literary devices like personification‚ metaphors and de-personification to make The Book Thief a better plot for the reader’s imagination. Even though Zusak’s novel’s novel created a world of hate it also gave a new view on how no one should judge a book by its cover. An author may use metaphors

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    Root cellar

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    organisms was the loamy place out of which he would shape his mind and delve into his psychic and familial past.” This quote shows that plant life and gardening had much meaning to Theodore Roethke. Overall‚ Theodore Roethke’s use of imagery and personification in Root Cellar gives society a different way to look at life. In “Root Cellar”‚ the large amount of imagery allows readers to build their senses in order to understand the true meaning of this poem. At the beginning of the poem‚ it starts out

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    they are in a bureaucratic society‚ they still do not have a voice in many issues‚ such as the workplace. Theodore Roethke uses personification‚ long sentence structure‚ and formal diction in "Dolor" to show the anguish and loneliness of the everyday office routine in a bureaucratic society because it is as if the workers are the same‚ and have no voice. Personification of the offices and its supplies metaphorically emphasizes the feelings of the work people. The "lonely reception room‚ lavatory

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    deserted‚ unpopulated area and the storm’s destructive effect on the land. His use of personification‚ similes‚ metaphors‚ alliteration‚ and creative imagery creates an atmosphere of danger of nature’s rage that certainly changes into an atmosphere of defeat and helplessness. In contrast the poet for ‘Spellbound’ makes you think the poem is about witchcraft and is very magical. This poem uses a lot of personification to make things sound unreal and mysterious. In ‘Wind’ the image of a ‘black back

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    Imagine how much could change if a different choice was made at one point in life. In Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken”‚ he compares life choices to a meeting of two roads. Frost describes the comparison in many ways. By looking at metaphor‚ personification‚ and imagery‚ it is clear that these literary devices contribute to the overall meaning of the poem. The entire poem is an extended metaphor. A metaphor compares two things by saying one object is another. It is implied that Frost is saying

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    Karait to protect Teddy even though it was dangerous (para 33). This proves that Kipling uses personification to prove the reason above because he gives human characteristics to Rikki Tikki by saying that Rikki Tikki had fought Karait to protect Teddy‚ but it is not possible in real life for a mongoose to kill a snake only to protect someone which proves that this is personification. This piece of personification demonstrates the theme because it proves that if someone cares about someone‚ they will face

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    rainy days. I use a lot of personification in this poem. Using personification is dominant in the poem because I like to make objects come alive. Most of the personification is directed toward clouds in general. One example is in line three of the first stanza‚ which says‚ “They cry like they are teenage girls having a bad day.” Personification is also used in line one of the third stanza which states‚ “I hate rainy days‚ clouds why do you weep?” Personification was the main

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    William Wordsworth

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    also seen on the language of the poem as W. Wordsworth uses personifications when he starts by comparing himself to a lonely cloud. Another personification and metaphor is when W. W compares the daffodils to a crowd of people and further more dancing humans. He starts his poem with a simile Alliteration: lonely as a cloud (line 1). Simile: Comparison (using as) of the speaker’s solitariness to that of a cloud (line 1). Personification: Comparison of the cloud to a lonely human. (line 1) Alliteration:

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