Sleeping In The Forest Personification Essay

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The poets use personification to create a message about nature in the pomes "Earth is a living thing," "Sleeping in the forest," and "Gold." (Earth) "Is a favorite child" is an example of personification. This is a message of nature because the earth is a favorite child of the universe because it is the only planet that we know of that can hold life. In " Sleeping in the forest", " I thought the earth would remember me" is an example of personification. It is about nature because, the speaker had thought the animals would not run away because the speaker had had a relationship with the animals, but when she came back it seemed as if all the animals ran away, and none of them remembered her. In "Gold" an example of personification is "When

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