Quotes: ”Almost these mindless waters work, as though they had a soul.” This is a quote from the poem ‘A song in a storm’ By Rudyard Kipling, it represents the language device of personification as the sea is being described with features of a human or an animal. Rudyard does this by saying the waters work as if they had a soul, meaning the way the water is treating the ship as if its personal and the ship is an opponent to the water. However, water is not able to act like that as it does not include a soul or any other features of a human.

”Rage, rage against the dying of light.” This quote is from the poem ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ By Dylan Thomas, it also represents the language device of personification as light cannot possible die as only animals and humans have the power of dying, this explains the use of the device of personification. Moreover, Dylan mentioning to rebel against the dying of light shows he wants to fight death as there no longer being light represents death as death is dark.

”To have so soone scap’d worlds, and fleshes rage.” This quote is from ‘On my first Sonne’ By Ben Johnson, this is another representation of personification as he is giving the world features of a human or animal such as being angry and having flesh.