Give an example of personification in poetry.

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Give an example of personification in poetry.

One example of personification in poetry is found in William Wordsworth's poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" where he personifies daffodils by giving them human-like qualities and emotions. The line "Continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the Milky Way" portrays the daffodils as being able to shine and twinkle like stars, attributing them with human characteristics.