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Examples Of Personification In Elephant Hunter

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In the tale “Elephant-Hunter, Take your Bow!” we immediately see personification in the first line, “the weeping forest”(C.M Bowra: African Literature pg 506). Another form of personification would be, “The night, all black, has gone to rest happy; in the sky the stars have fled trembling” (C.M Bowra: African Literature pg 506). Also, “The leaves are dead” (C.M Bowra: African Literature pg 506). There is also the simile, “the meat which walks like a hill” (C.M Bowra: African Literature pg 506). All of these literary devices are attributed towards nature in a slightly respectful tone. The feelings of the hunters would be intimidation since the stars were already trembling. The even deeper respect for the Elephant-Hunter is portrayed in the passage.
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