Read Robert Frost's poem, "The Birthplace." Then, identify and describe the main kind of figurative language that's used in the poem. Finally, discuss how this use of figurative language contributes to the poem's meaning. Here further up the mountain slope

Than there was ever any hope,

My father built, enclosed a spring,

Strung chains of wall round everything,

Subdued the growth of earth to grass

And brought our various lives to pass.

A dozen girls and boys we were.

The mountain seemed to like the stir,

And made of us a little while–

With always something in her smile.

Today she wouldn't know our name.

(No girl's, of course, has stayed the same.)

The mountain pushed us off her knees.

And now her lap is full of trees.

Explanation:

The main kind of figurative language used in the poem "The Birthplace" is personification.

The contribution of the use of personification in the poem serves to emphasize the author's nostalgic feeling about nature.

The Birthplace is a poem by Robert Frost the main theme of which is nature and how people change with it.

Frost uses personification in trying to show the transient relationship between man and nature, how nature is so changed and man so out of touch with it that she wouldn't even remember their name.

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