Exploring Personification in Poetry

January 2021, Year 4, age 8

This week we looked at idea of personification. We read Witch words by Robert Fisher, The Sky is low by Emily Dickinson, and Personification by Lil Pluta. HB was interested in reading something a little more challenging so we explored the poem Because I could not stop for death by Emily Dickinson.

HB's notes on the poem

A consideration of the weather and how it might be described if it were a person led to the creation of this poem:

HB's Unsettled Weather Personification poem

We completed our look at personification by considering the difference between personification and anthropomorphism.

Telling the difference between anthropomorphism and personification
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