The one purpose of the personification in the above excerpt is: it makes death seem friendly and familiar. The poem "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" is about the journey of the poet towards death. She tells about the appearance of the death and her journey towards her grave.
“Spring is like a perhaps hand” uses personification and simile. Simile
compares two things with the use of “like” or “as”; while personification gives
human attributes to inanimate objects. In poem's title the simile can be
expressed as "spring is like a hand;" while the personification is giving spring
a “hand” which is a part of the human body that is able to move or arrange things.
