pick out example of personification in the poem the season of plains
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Explanation:
In the first line, the speaker invokes autumn as an autonomous being by posing the question "Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?" This question humanizes autumn simply by referring to it as "you" and also implies the very human quality of ownership. The products of the season (flowers, cider, etc.) are autumn's "store," and thus autumn is personified through the concept of ownership.
In the fourth line, the speaker describes autumn as having "hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind." Attributing hair to a season is certainly personification, and here, Keats is particularly clever by depicting the wind as "winnowing." We picture both a breeze through a human head of hair, and the wind sifting through the wheat, separating it from the chaff.
Finally, in the eighth and ninth, lines the speaker portrays the stooped yet steadfast position of autumn's head as such: