Can you give examples of personification in Shakespeare's works?

Question

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Answer 1

“sleep ... knits up the raveled sleeve of care... chief nourisher in life’s feast.” - MacBeth

“Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir,
My daughter has wedded.” (p. 566, Act IV, Scene 5) - Romeo and Juliet

Answer 2

Personification In Shakespeare

Answer 3

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Personification is when you talk about an object as if it is a living thing. Example : The winds did sing it to me, and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass.(3.3.97-99) The winds don't really sing, only living things sing, so this is both a metaphor and personification.

Answer 4

Theseus talks about personification before personification had a name:

"More strange than true. I never may believe
these antic fables nor these fairy toys.
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
more than cool reason ever comprehends.
The lunatic, the lover and the poet
are, of imagination, all compact.
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold:
That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic,
sees Helen beauty in a brow of Egypt.
The poets eye in a fine frenzy rolling
doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven.
And as imagination bodies forth
the forms of things unknown, the poets pen
turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
a local habitation and a name.
Such tricks hath strong imagination
that, if it would apprehend some joy,
it comprehends a bringer of that joy.
Or, in the night, imagining some fear,
how easy is a bush supposed a bear!"

Answer 5

"Were I but a glove on that hand I could touch that face."
"O soft, what light through yonder window breaks, 'tis the east and Juliet is the sun."

Both from Romeo's speech in the balcony scene of Romeo and Juliet. Sort of a twist on personification... making the person an object.

Answer 6

all the answers so far are examples of metaphors, not personification, when you say a person is something else, that is a metaphor, i.e. "she is my sunshine", "he is a hungry lion".

Personification is when you give human qualities to a non-human, like "the sun smiled at me with warm rays" or "the old scarred tree spoke of it's troubled past".

Answer 7

And Death once dead there's no more dying then.

Answer 8

"she is the personification of optimism"