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  2. Personification - Wikipedia

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    Personification is the representation of a thing or abstraction as a person. It is, in other words, considered an embodiment or an incarnation. [ 1 ] In the arts , many things are commonly personified.

  3. There's a certain Slant of light - Wikipedia

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    There is also personification in the poem as the landscape "listens" and the shadows "hold their breath," to a degree that it seems as though the landscape is the protagonist in the absence of any human figures in the poem. [11]

  4. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - Wikipedia

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    The poem is written in iambic tetrameter in the Rubaiyat stanza created by Edward FitzGerald, who adopted the style from Hakim Omar Khayyam, the 12th-century Persian poet and mathematician. Each verse (save the last) follows an AABA rhyming scheme , with the following verse's A line rhyming with that verse's B line, which is a chain rhyme ...

  5. Pathetic fallacy - Wikipedia

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    For example, when a person is unhinged by grief, the clouds might seem darker than they are, or perhaps mournful or uncaring. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The word "fallacy" in modern usage refers primarily to an example of flawed reasoning, but for Ruskin and writers of the 19th century and earlier, fallacy could be used to mean simply a "falseness". [ 8 ]

  6. Because I could not stop for Death - Wikipedia

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    The personification of death changes from one of pleasantry to one of ambiguity and morbidity: "Or rather—He passed Us— / The Dews drew quivering and chill—" (13–14). The imagery changes from its original nostalgic form of children playing and setting suns to Death's real concern of taking the speaker to the afterlife.

  7. Abandoned Farmhouse - Wikipedia

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    "Abandoned Farmhouse" is an American poem in three 8-line stanzas, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning and Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser.. First published in 1980 with Kooser's collection Sure Signs: New and Selected Poems, [1] the poem uses open verse, simple diction and personification of inanimate objects to infer a family's story and possible reasons for their departure, through observation of ...

  8. She Walks in Beauty - Wikipedia

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    "She Walks in Beauty" is a short lyrical poem in iambic tetrameter written in 1814 by Lord Byron, and is one of his most famous works. [2] It is said to have been inspired by an event in Byron's life. On 11 June 1814, Byron attended a party in London. Among the guests was Mrs. Anne Beatrix Wilmot, wife of Byron's first cousin, Sir Robert Wilmot ...

  9. Nothing Gold Can Stay (poem) - Wikipedia

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    John A. Rea wrote about the poem's "alliterative symmetry", citing as examples the second line's "hardest – hue – hold" and the seventh's "dawn – down – day"; he also points out how the "stressed vowel nuclei also contribute strongly to the structure of the poem" since the back round diphthongs bind the lines of the poem's first ...