Does the poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost contain any personification or alliteration?
rowens Teacher High School – 12th Grade There is definitely personification in the second and third stanzas. Personification is attributing human charactersitics to the non-human. Enotes specifically defines it as “a figure of speech in which abstractions, animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are endowed with human form, character, traits, or sensibilities.” So when the speaker says that “My little horse must think it queer / To stop without a farmhouse near” and “He gives his harness bells a shake / To ask if there is some mistake,” he is giving the horse, a non-human, the ability to think and ask questions much in the same way that a human being would. There is also a fair amount of alliteration, or repitition of beginning consonant sounds. Some examples are below: watch his woods (repeated w sounds) his harness (repeated h sounds) sound’s the sweep (s sounds) For more information on the style Frost used in this poem, see the link below. Other links explain personification and allit
