: Re: What are some examples of the "simple but vivid" description that Chekhov talks about in the quote below? (The quote below is from one of Chekhov's letters to other Russian writer, Maxim Gorky.)

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Well, The sun shone, the grass grew, the waves crashed. It's odd advice from Chekov. The following are from Chekov's short story "The Witch":

And the wind staggered like a drunkard.
The snowdrifts were covered with a thin coating of ice; tears quivered on them and on the trees;

I supposed he might be saying there's good and bad anthropomorphism.

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