How does the poet use personification in the poem to describe the wind? B. Cite evidence - 2 or more examples from the poem - and explain how your evidence supports your answer for part A. Be sure to tell what the evidence shows about the author using personification when describing the wind. R. L 7.4 Target: I can identify and determine the meaning of figurative language.

Directions: Highlight and briefly explain instances of figurative language in the poem. The first one is done for you as an example to follow.

The Wind’s Visit
By Emily Dickinson

The wind tapped like a tired man, personification and simile: wind compared to a man
And like a host, “Come in,”
I boldly answered; entered then
My residence within

5 A rapid, footless guest
To offer whom a chair
Were as impossible as to hand
A sofa to the air.

No home had he to bind him,
10His speech was like the push
Of numerous humming-birds at once
From a superior bush.

His countenance a billow,
His fingers, if he pass,
15Let go a music, as of tunes
Blown tremulous in glass.

He visited, still flirting;
Then, like a timid man,
Again he tapped - - ‘twas flurriedly --
20And I became alone.

Notes:

*Personification is when the author gives human qualities to something non-human.

*Simile is comparing two unlike things using “like,” “as,” “resembles,” or “than”.

*You can have a simile and personification used at the same time.