精華區beta poetry 關於我們 聯絡資訊
Personification "consists in giving the attributes of a human being to an animal, an object, or a concept"; whereas Apostrophe "consists in addressing someone absent or dead or something nonhuman as if that person or thing were present and alive and could reply to what is being said." (Arp 72-73) The "Flower" and "Frost" in Dickinson's "Apparently with no surprise" belong to the former, and the star that begins Keats's "Bright Star" the latter.