Poetry Hacks

Mak[ing] ceaseless music through the night and day, … giving me … A knowledge … of the calm Which Nature breathes among the fields and groves? First, the River Derwent is portrayed as a sort of musician; then Nature is presented as a sort of mother, breathing a lovely 'calm' over his infancy. The use of personification helps to convey the close relationship between the poet and the natural phenomena he is describing.

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