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Comparison in the Uses of Apostrophe & Personification in Shelley's
Title: Comparison in the Uses of Apostrophe & Personification in Shelley's
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1100 | Pages: 4.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Comparison in the Uses of Apostrophe & Personification in Shelley's
Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem, "Ode to the West Wind" and Sylvia Plath's poem "Mirror" both employ the poetic tools of apostrophe, the address to something that is intangible, and personification, the application of human characteristics to something inanimate. However, they form a paradox in the usage of these tools through the imagery they create. Both poets have breathed life into inanimate objects, however death and aging are the prominent themes within both of these works.
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…showed last 75 words of 1100 total…elements of personification to a few of the objects in his poem. Most of the human attributes Shelley gives to these objects are mainly metaphysical.
The paradox of Sylvia Plath's "Mirror", is that the mirror is given life to reflect the image of aging, and the sadness of the inevitability of death. Ironically, Shelley has managed to employ the tool of personification, not by giving life to an inanimate object, but by giving it death.
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