What are examples of similes from the text Walden?

The Train I like to see it lap the miles,

And lick the valleys up,

And stop to feed itself at tanks;

And then, prodigious, step Around a pile of mountains,

And, supercilious, peer

In shanties by the sides of roads;

And then a quarry pare To fit its sides, and crawl between, Complaining all the while

In horrid, hooting stanza;

Then chase itself down hill

And neigh like Boanerges;

Then, punctual as a start its own,

Stop-docile and omnipotent-

A stable door. by Emily Dickinson

Personification is the attributing of human qualities to non-human objects.

This is not to be confused with anthropomorphism, which is also the attributing of human characteristics to nonhuman objects, but anthropomorphism persists throughout an entire literary work. The animals in Aesop's Fables or The Chronicles of Narnia are good examples of anthropomorphism.