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Personification Poems
This page provides examples of Personification poems. The poems and poetry
selected are by famous poets who have used Personification as a poetic or
literary device to convey, emphasize and create vivid images.
Poets use this type of device as an unusual alternative to every
day speech to help them express mood and emotion. For additional
information about Personification please click the following link:
Personification
Examples of Personification
Poems
Our examples of Personification
poems
and poetry have been selected from the work of some of the the most famous
American and English poets.
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Paradise
Lost - Book 3 by John Milton
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Spring Pools
by Robert Frost
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To Autumn by
John Keats
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Root Cellar
by Theodore Roethke
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Holy Sonnet
VI by John Donne
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Mirror by
Sylvia Plath
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Once by the
Pacific by Robert Frost
Extracts from poems
& poetry illustrating Personification
The following
extracts are examples from Personification poems and poetry:
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"Confusion
heards his voice.'' from Paradise Lost - Book 3 by John
Milton
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"Earth felt
the wound; and Nature from her seat,
Sighing, through all her works, gave signs of woe." from
Paradise Lost by John Milton
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"And like
the flowers beside them chill and shiver,
Will like the flowers beside them soon be gone" from
Spring Pools by Robert Frost
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"Drowsed
with the fume of poppies" from 'To Autumn' by John Keats
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" Even the
dirt kept breathing a small breath." Root Cellar by
Theodore Roethke
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"Slave to
fate, chance, kings and desperate men" from Holy Sonnet
VI by John Donne
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I am silver
and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see, I swallow immediately.
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike
I am not cruel, only truthful –
from Mirror by Sylvia Plath
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"The
shattered water made a misty din.
Great waves looked over others coming in"
from Once by the Pacific by Robert Frost
Examples Help! Use
of Examples of Personification Poems in Poems & Poetry
The Personification poem, poems or poetry convey and emphasize unusual
and vivid images. The use of strong word association in
personification changes the
mode of thought and adds variation, embellishment and adornment
to poetic and literary works. |
