Emily Dickinson - Personification Flashcards
What is Personification?
Personification is the giving of human traits to non-human things.
What event in nature is Dickinson personifying (giving human characteristics to) in her poem “She sweeps with many-colored Brooms”?
Dickinson is personifying a sunset by portraying it as a housewife.
What does Emily Dickinson personify (give human characteristics to) in the poem “Nature, the gentlest mother”?
Dickinson personifies “Nature” - “Nature, the gentlest mother.”
What idea or thing does Robert Frost personify (give human characteristics to) in his poem “Bond and Free”?
Frost personifies “thought” - “Thought has shaken his ankles free.”
How does Sara Teasdale personify (give human characteristics to) life in her poem “Barter”?
She personifies life as a vendor who sells loveliness.
What event in nature is Dickinson personifying (giving human characteristics to) in her poem “She sweeps with many-colored Brooms”?
Dickinson is personifying a sunset by portraying it was a housewife.
What does Emily Dickinson personify (give human characteristics to) in the poem “Nature, the gentlest mother”?
Dickinson personifies “Nature” - “Nature, the gentlest mother.”
What does Ralph Waldo Emerson personify (give human characteristics to) in the poem “Concord Hymn?”
Emerson personifies “Spirit” - “Bad Time and Nature gently spare/ The shaft we raise. . . .”
