: 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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Anthropomorphism is extremely common in many cultures around the world, and in older work in the European tradition. It's currently out-of-favor in modern European and American literature because it represents a spiritual, animist view of the universe that clashes with the dominant materialist worldview.

There's really no reason to not use this in poetry, which tends to be very individualistic. It would be unusual, but not unheard of in prose fiction (for instance, Kleinzeit), and typically frowned upon in mainstream prose non-fiction.

Using descriptive passages to illuminate aspects of the narrator or narrator's mindset is quite common, and while it isn't commonly done in this particular way, there's no reason it couldn't be.

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