Question

Read the poem “The Sky is Low, the Clouds are Mean” below and the question that follows.

The sky is low, the clouds are mean,

A travelling flake of snow

Across a barn or through a rut

Debates if it will go.

A narrow wind complains all day

How some one treated him;

Nature, like us, is sometimes caught

Without her diadem.

What literary technique did poet Emily Dickinson use in this poem?

nuance
antithesis
personification
alliteration

Answer 1

The answer is personification

Step-by-step explanation:

Personification means when an object is given a human trait or characteristic. Two examples in this poem are, "the clouds are mean," and "A narrow wind complains all day" Clouds can't actually be mean since they can't talk and same with wind, they can't complain all day since they can't talk