The Rime of the Ancient Mariner & Personification

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1834. The tale is about a sailor on a journey across the ocean. There is a guy on the ship who is about to be married. I think they get lost at sea, and then a bird appears and tries to help them out of the Antarctic Ocean and away from all the ice. Samuel Taylor Coleridge likes to use the literary device of personification. Here are some quotes from the poem that represent personification: 1) The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound! --- 2) And now the storm-blast came, and he was tyrannous and strong: He struck with his o’ertaking wings, and chased us south along. – These two quotes represent personification because ice doesn’t actually growl, roar, and howl, it just makes noises that can be related to these sounds. Storms don’t actually chase people, but this storm happened to be heading the same way as the boat so it seemed like the storm was chasing them, but storms can’t mentally decide to chase you south or anything like that.