Question

What does the personification in this text suggest? There was never a sound beside the wood but one, And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground. —Robert Frost, "Mowing"

Answer 1

Answer:

What does the personification in this text suggest?

There was never a sound beside the wood but one, And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground. —Robert Frost, "Mowing"

• The Personification is : 'long scythe whispering to the ground.'

• A scythe can't 'whisper' because it is an inanimate object.

• Here in the sentence scythe has been personified as it is whispering to the ground.

• According to the given there was no sound except the sound of whispering of the long scythe.

• Personification is a figure of speech and it is used to personify an inanimate object or non living tthings.

Answer 2

Answer:

There was never a sound beside the wood but one, And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground. —Robert Frost, "Mowing"

The personification in the line 'my long scythe whispering to the ground' suggests the poet was cutting the grass. While cutting, the scythe was making a type of low noise.

Explanation:

Personification is the technique or practice of representing objects, qualities, etc. as humans, in art and literature. In this line scythe making noise while cutting grass has been compared to whispering of a human being.