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2. Personification
Read the following line :
“It takes something from our hearts,
And it never comes again.”
In this line the poet has attributed the qualities of living
beings to an abstract notion ( youth). ‘It’ ( youth) is personified.
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It is Personification.
Personification is a figure of speech in which a non-living
object or an abstract notion is treated as having life.
Pick out other examples of personification that appear in
the poem.
Collect some examples for metaphor and personification.
Take the help of your teacher if necessary .
C) Rhyming words :
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Make a list of rhyming words from the poem.
e.g: pain reign.
Add a few rhyming words to the following.
sweet, air, heart, vanish.
About the poet
Richard Henry Stoddard (1825-1903) was an
American critic and poet. He became a black-
smith and later an iron moulder reading a lot of
poetry at the same time. In 1849 he gave up his
industrial trades and began to write for a living.
His poetical work is sincere, original and marked
by delicate fancy, and felicity of form; and his
songs have given him a high and permanent
place among American lyric poets.
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