Probably the most famous example of personification in poetry
is the Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme .
Hey diddle, diddle
The cat and the fiddle
The cow jumped over the moon
The little dog laughed to see such fun
And the dish ran away with the spoon!
Personification is when a human quality is transposed
onto an animal or inanimate subject:
'dog laughed'....'dish ran away with the spoon'
In Wiliiam Blake's 'The Train' he makes
great use of personification.. the first stanza;
I like to see it lap the miles
And lick the valleys up
And stop to feed itself at tanks
And then, prodigious, step
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