How Is Personification Used In The Lamp At Noon

Fiction vs Reality Dreams are what the world would like, but most often it is not the world we live in which is shown repeatedly in the short story “The lamp at noon” by Sinclair Rose and the poem “Up” by Margaret Atwood. The three main ideas that will be expressed will be about irony, metaphors, and personification. Personification by definition is giving human attributes to inanimate objects, personification is also a way to give life to objects which so the readers can get a proper understanding of the objects value in the story, in the short story “The lamp at noon” the readers learn that Ross was trying to give everything around the two main protagonists life so the story would have all the more meaning and emotion, “there was a wind whining high” (Ross 68) the literary device was used to give more emotion to the argument that Ross and Ellen were having, similarly in the poem “Up” there

It had been her arms, perhaps, too frantic to protect him, or the smother of dust upon his throat and lungs” (Ross 72) the readers are shown a dark and interesting use of irony, similarly in the poem “Up” Atwood uses irony in an odd way at the very least she gives a hypothetical ironic situation which has a more positive outlook than negative “pretend the house is on fire and you must run or burn. No that one’s useless. It’s never worked before” (Atwood 38) the main theme of the poem and the short story would have to be, that life moves on even if you don’t, so the only than anyone can do is get up and carry on, even though its more heavily expressed in the poem