Imagery is a particularly powerful tool that poets utilize to make their works more vivid and lively. Particularly, imagery can be done through a variety of means such as personification. Personification is the giving of human traits and actions to nonhuman objects. For instance, in Ozymandias, Shelly uses personification to paint a vivid image of the stone remains of a statue. Shelly describes the statue as having a "sneer of cold command", an image that gives a vivid image of the king described before his eventual death.
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