Read "Sonnet: To Liberty." by Mary Darby Robinson
Why did Garrison refer to Liberty as a person? Give one example of another poem using this technique?
Answer:
This sonnet seems to have used the literary device called personification. Liberty is described with human features: it was born and nurtured. Furthermore, Liberty seems to be personified as a woman who holds truth as a valuable principle, as “the pure inmate of thy glowing breast."
Step-by-step explanation:
William Blake uses the same literary device in his poem The Sick Rose. There he talks directly to a rose, granting it the human capacity of becoming sick: "O Rose, thou art sick!"