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3- PERSONIFICATION

Personification is a metaphorical device used by poets when they:
1-humanize objects
2- or when they attribute human qualities to nonhuman objects or abstract ideas

In other words it is a type of metaphor in which the vehicle is confined to a human being. When Robert Herrick says to the daffodils

And having prayed together, we

will go with you along

We realize that he is using the word "prayed" in a metaphorical sense. People pray, but the daffodils do not; and so they are personified in order to convince* the reader of the flower's delicacy.

Let us look analyze the following example

Let not ambition* mock* their useful toil

In this line the poet personifies both ambition by comparing it to someone who mocks

Also the use of the third person pronouns (he, she, him, his, her) to refer to nonhuman objects is another device of making personification. Spenser personifies Phoebus* in "Eliza*"

I saw Phoebus thrust out his golden head

Upon her to gaze

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