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Personification is the representation of a thing or abstraction as a person, often as an embodiment or incarnation. [1] In the arts, ...
Personification [25] is the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, [26] especially as a rhetorical figure. Example: "Because I could not stop for Death,/He kindly stopped for me;/The carriage held but just ourselves/And Immortality."—Emily Dickinson. Dickinson portrays death as a carriage ...
The personification was sometimes called Lady Columbia or Miss Columbia. Such an iconography usually personified America in the form of an Indian queen or Native American princess. [ 25 ] The image of the personified Columbia was never fixed, but she was most often presented as a woman between youth and middle age, wearing classically draped ...
Wisdom (personification) Y. Yamato nadeshiko This page was last edited on 13 April 2024, at 03:52 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Jack Frost is a personification of frost, ice, snow, sleet, winter, and freezing cold. He is a variant of Old Man Winter who is held responsible for frosty weather, nipping the fingers and toes in such weather, coloring the foliage in autumn, and leaving fern-like patterns on cold windows in winter.
As a personification, she was sometimes imagined as a goddess and sometimes an abstract power with her name used both as a common and proper noun. [4] There is evidence that Peitho was referred to as a goddess before she was referred to as an abstract concept, which is rare for a personification. [5]
Hemera (1881) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. In Greek mythology, Hemera (/ ˈ h ɛ m ər ə /; Ancient Greek: Ἡμέρα, romanized: Hēmérā, lit. 'Day' [hɛːméraː]) was the personification of day.
Victoria (or Nike) on a fresco from Pompeii, Neronian era. In ancient Roman religion Victoria was the deified personification of victory. She first appeared during the first Punic War, seemingly as a Romanised re-naming of Nike, the goddess of victory associated with Rome's Greek allies in the Greek mainland and in Magna Graecia.