Question

In William Blake’s “odes to the seasons” the poet uses personification to portray winter as ?

Answer 1

William Blake uses personification to portray winter as:

A monster.

"Lo! now the direful monster". Winter is represented as a monster, as an agent of evil that ignores the poet and lives on the depths of a volcano (the mount Hecla). The imagery used by Blake also adds notes of darkness and control by the use of doors, habitations and a sceptre of the world.