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Sorrow In Edgar Lee Master's Poem 'George Gray'

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Edgar Lee Master’s poem “George Gray” uses figurative language to show that regret induces sorrow.
Master’s use of personification and an extended metaphor proves that regret induces sorrow. Throughout the poem the narrator explains to us, the reader, his regret of not taking chances that was once proposed to him in his life. In the poem it states, “Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid.” This negative connotation is an example of personification. The example shows sorrow is a feeling that cannot physically knock on one’s door, thus saying from his point of view, he started feeling grief, meanwhile he degenerated proposition. Gray, even in the state of being, was reluctant to see through a different perspective of life towards possibility
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