Find out examples from the poem. Personification - English

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Find out examples from the poem.

Personification

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Solution

"Pink, fragile, quick to fall
At the merest breath, the sleepiest breeze..."
"And moon-moths and singing crickets and I —
Yes, I! — praised Night and Stars and tree:"

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