: Re: Are there any implications around the use of personification? I saw the dead rising from the hill The sea was sleeping soundly as usual Before the shadows crept to its shore. I just wrote the

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If you want the sea to represent your mind, maybe use something like "My sea of thoughts". Using sea of thoughts without telling it is "yours" will refer to someone else's mind or a collective of people. Same goes for the trees. You can say something like "The trees of my forest". Once you refer to your forest, it can be meant they are representing a part of you.

I have written similar songs in Hebrew about a friend who died in a car accident and I used a chopped tree to represent her life.

I don't want to abuse artistic license to do whatever I want unless it has been done before by famous writers.

Everything has already been done before you. No one did it exactly as you did.
Also, unless it is some special name, for example, Stormlight, you can use whatever you want. No one owns regular sentences in the English language.

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