The literary device used in the poem is Personification. The effect of personification is that it gives trees and palms human-like character and bring human life to them.
<u>Explanation</u>
- Personification is that figure of speech that renders non-human character human form by way of comparison. Therefore, non-human characters are given a humanistic form which helps the readers understand the character better and even sometimes empathize with them.
- In Personification human qualities and features are given to non-human entities which eventually allow them to compare their different feature and character. This subsequently allows them to be understood better by the readers and the audience at large.
- Personification is the most common literary device which is used by writers and poets, in particular, to express their ideas and visions better and more specifically.
All together there are about ten literary devices which are also called figures of speech of which personification stands out to be the most important one. In the given lines "...watching the trees at the edge of town that reluctantly moved to the slow wind. The palms beyond them were still as if awaiting something", the poet had tried to personify trees with the human that moved very hesitantly while the palms were unmoved.
David Hume’s various writings concerning problems of religion are among the most important and influential contributions on this topic. In these writings Hume advances a systematic, sceptical critique of the philosophical foundations of various theological systems. Whatever interpretation one takes of Hume’s philosophy as a whole, it is certainly true that one of his most basic philosophical objectives is to discredit the doctrines and dogmas of traditional theistic belief. There are, however, some significant points of disagreement about the exact nature and extent of Hume’s irreligious intentions. One of the most important of these is whether Hume’s sceptical position leads him to a view that can be properly characterized as “atheism”.
The primary aims of this article are: (1) to give an account of Hume’s main arguments as they touch on various particular issues relating to religion; and (2) to answer to the question concerning the general character of Hume’s commitments on this subject.
1. Religious Philosophers and Speculative Atheists
2. Empiricism, Scepticism and the Very Idea of God
3. The Cosmological Argument and God’s Necessary-Existence
4. The Argument from Design
5. The Problem of Evil
6. Miracles
7. Immortality and a Future State
8. Hume’s Genealogy of Religion: Causes and Dynamics of Religious Belief
9. Religion and Morality
10. Was Hume an Atheist?
11. Irreligion and the Unity of Hume’s Philosophy
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Hume’s Works
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