Question

‘The city now, doth, like garment wear’. The poet imagines that the city is wearing a beautiful garment. Hence, the figure of speech is personification. Find out more examples of personification from the poem.

Answer 1

1. An example of Personification can be found in the line,

   'This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning;'

   In this line, the city is said to wear the beauty of the morning like a garment. Thus, the city has been compared to a person wearing clothes.

2. “In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill;”
   Personification – 'The sun' has been personified using the male pronoun 'his'.
3. The river glideth at his own sweet will:
   Personification – The river has been given the animate quality of having its own 'will'.