Turn the poet out of door. Robert Frost’s “To the Thawing Wind” is most fondly remembered for its inspiring tone and universally applicable motifs, but it’s also heralded from a linguistic perspective ...

Personification is when you give human characteristics to inanimate objects (e.g. a spoon or a shoe), abstract concepts (e.g. time or happiness) or natural phenomena (e.g. the weather or a tree). It ...

Describing objects as if they are people is a way of making sentences more exciting. This is called personification. For example, Jess's heart is racing at 100 miles per hour. A heart can’t literally ...

The convergence of Earth Day on April 22 and National Poetry Month throughout April has inspired me to share the following personification poems written by some of my former second, third, and fourth ...

Editor’s intro: Today, Bertha Rogers, teaching artist with Teachers & Writers Collaborative, shares how poetry can teach the world and make students feel at home in it. She also shares tips and ...