Charles Baudelaire: Poems
Does the poem "To The Reader" use figurative lanuage?
does it contain simile, metaphors, or personification.
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does it contain simile, metaphors, or personification.
In short, yes, it uses lot of figurative language. A few examples:
There is a simile in the first stanza: "we feed our pleasant remorse
As beggars nourish their vermin."
The next line personifies qualities by giving them human characteristics: "Our sins are obstinate, our repentance is faint;"
Overall, the whole poem dabbles in metaphor, talking about our sinfulness as being controlled by devils, our sins as animals, etc. It's chock full of figurative language.