Question

to a daughter with artistic talent poem in which lines does the poet use personification to create a somber mood

Answer 1

*Use of personification in the poem To A Daughter with Artistic Talent to create a somber mood*

(1). This poem is written by the poet Peter Meinke who uses personification in the line "trees no longer silver " which means that they are no more greenery in color and lose their importance.

(2). Also in the line " the sky is a surreal sea in which you drown" which means that gift given to us by nature will swallow us later when we will neglect it.

Answer 2

The poet uses the literary device of personification in “cold dawn” and “cold and distant December”.

EXPLANATION:

• The poem To a Daughter with Artistic Talent is written by the poet Peter Meinke. In this poem the poet gives advice to his daughter who is good at painting to keep up her talents.
• He says that because she is young she is happy and uses bright colours for her paintings, but there will be a time when she would be laden with responsibilities and the hardships of life that she would start using dark colours.
• But, according to him she must continue doing her work. The post has used personification on two occasions, first the cold dawn and second the cold and distant December as if December is a person and is distant or away from her.