—Charles Pierce Burton.
3. The sun is couched, the seafowl gone to rest, And the wild storm hath somewhere found a nest.
—Wordsworth.
4. See the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother.
—Shelley.
+91. Apostrophe.+—Apostrophe is like personification, but has an additional characteristic. When we directly address inanimate objects or the absent as if they were present, we call the figure of speech thus formed apostrophe.
The following are examples of apostrophe:—
1. Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!
—Tennyson.
2. Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight,
Make me a child again just for to-night!
Mother, come back from the echoless shore,
Take me again to your heart as of yore.