Journal entry #53 - March 2, 2010

Journal #53: Personification is a valuable tool because being humans, we have a tendency to relate to body language and emotion that mimics our own actions. When using personification, be fully aware of how the imagery affects the tone of the poem. If you are trying to convey a dark feeling, you wouldn't uses images like "The butterflies danced in a circle of wind," but you could use the butterflies and say, “The butterflies kept vigilance of the garden, and they sliced the wind with their wings."


For the following words, use personification to describe the objects.

The ocean

A car

The wind

An unfinished poem

A roach

The curtains

Example for the above: The ocean sways his hips to the monotonous hum of the steady wind.