Garden Hoe Figurative Language

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The poem I have chosen for this assignment is called "Garden Hose" by Kristine O'Connell George. The reason I chose this poem is because I believe that it shows great use of figurative language. It is especially used in the line that says, "Our hose dozes in the warm sun and wonders, / what to be when it grows up." This line shows that it uses personification. The reason that this is important to the poems meaning is because this type of figurative language is used all throughout the entire poem. As I stated before, this poem uses personification all throughout of its structure. Personification is giving human characteristics to something nonhuman. Of course, a garden hose is not alive, and it doesn’t have human characteristics on its own,

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