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poems for Poetry Place |
The snowflakes lament poet’s place One day The President Of the union of snowflakes Wrote a letter To the NYT Lamenting the fact That all the politicians Were using snowflakes As a political curse word He wrote Please stop Calling everyone You oppose As snowflakes It hurts our feelings And snowflakes Are sensitive creatures Please just stop Personification is a literary device by which animals, objects or ideas are given human characteristics, as in "the sky is weeping." This technique gives deeper meaning and makes expressions easier to understand, because readers always see things from a human perspective. More examples of personification can be found in the following link: http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-personification.html Your assignment: Write a poem from the point of view of some inanimate object, such as a "Snowflake" . |