Use Of Personification In Emily Dickinson's Poetry
In Emily Dickinson’s poems “A word is dead,” “The heart asks pleasure first,” and “Because I could not stop for Death”, personification is used to understand the meaning.
In “A word is dead,” the poem is about when a word is spoken many believe it loses meaning, but Dickinson says it “begins to live that day.” Dickinson uses personification to describe “a word is dead” and “begins to live.” A word is an expression one uses. A word cannot die nor live, it can only happen through the actions of a person. A word begins to live when a person expresses themselves, the start of a story. When one cannot go into depth to express thoughts and experiences, the word loses its meaning and simply dies.
In “The heart asks pleasure first,” the “heart” can
In “A word is dead,” the poem is about when a word is spoken many believe it loses meaning, but Dickinson says it “begins to live that day.” Dickinson uses personification to describe “a word is dead” and “begins to live.” A word is an expression one uses. A word cannot die nor live, it can only happen through the actions of a person. A word begins to live when a person expresses themselves, the start of a story. When one cannot go into depth to express thoughts and experiences, the word loses its meaning and simply dies.
In “The heart asks pleasure first,” the “heart” can