Tuesday, August 20, 2013

What is one personification used in the poem, "If" by Rudyard Kipling?

There are quite a few examples of
personification (a metaphor in which a thing or idea is
given human characteristics) in Rudyard Kipling's classic poem, "If." One comes in the
second stanza: The words "Triumph" and "Disaster" are given the human characteristics of
"impostors." Also in the second stanza, "truth" is "twisted by knaves" in order to
entrap the spoken words. In the third stanza, the human element of the "Will" is given
life, verbalizing the words "Hold on." In the final stanza, the time element--a
"minute"--is given the human trait of being "unforgiving."

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