Question

Read the excerpt below from “Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind” and answer the question that follows.

Answer 1

For the first one the answer is "That does not bite so nigh" .

Answer 2

Answer:

"Thy sting is not so sharp".

Explanation:

Personification is a literary device used by writers especially in poems to give human attributes to their inanimate subjects. These are representative forms of abstract things in human forms, giving an active image, living entity or characteristic to something that is non- human.

The poem "Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind" uses this device in personification of the winter wind as something animate. This poem is from the romantic comedy "As you Like It" by William Shakespeare. The line "Thy sting is not so sharp" is one such example, for it gives the human characteristic or quality of 'biting' to the winter wind. Such type of giving humanistic qualities to things are termed as a form of personification.