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Personification in Poetry

 

            In literature, personification of an object or location is one of the various ways to explain and to demonstrate something. Most poets usually use personification to simplicity our imagination on the matter. Kennedy and Goia (2002) refer personification to a way that can be used to explain the thing as a person in text product. From time to time we are helped by personifying on some object to ease our understanding. In most poems, poets use personification to make a secure relationship between the reader and the things that have been talked about in the poem. The Poet also uses the form of personification to make the things look alive. So personification is used in the poems "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson and "Death, be not proud" by John Donne, to help express a peaceful and sarcastic tone that is used.
             "Because I could not stop for death" is one of Emily Dickinson's poems, Dickinson utilizes personification to tell about the death. She envisioned and made eclectic death as a character that can do everything like an individual. "Because I could not stop for Death" was composed in 1863. Emily Dickinson was a writer in the eighteenth century and John Donne was a writer in sixteenth century and John Donne was a writer in sixteenth century.
             Back to two centuries prior to Emily Dickinson in "Because I could not stop for Death" and John Donne in "Death, be not proud" additionally utilizes an alternate sort of personification. Despite the fact that these two writers existed in the different times, they processed the same subject of poetry ambience. Their poems about death have been dejected and have remarkable approaches to exemplify death. The two poets in their work look in, out and all around using human characters for "death" representation in their work "Because I could not stop for death " and John Donne "Death, be not proud". In "Death, be not proud " Donne says "For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow " Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.


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