Clare Rossini’s Use of Personification in “Final Love Note”
Have you ever had feelings toward an inanimate object, either for nostalgic reasons or purely because of preference? That object can sometimes seem as though it has a personality of its own and there exists a seemingly dynamic relationship between you and it because of the attachment you feel. This is precisely what Clare Rossini describes in her poem, “Final Love Note”. Rossini uses vivid imagery and word choice to personify the old elm tree outside her room as a lost lover. In the first stanza, the speaker relates her past with her love. It seems that their relationship has been brief, but purely passionate. The speaker states “for months we’ve been together, hardly wanton / never touching” (1-2). Although the speaker claims their relationship is chaste, the next several images hardly sound so. The speaker’s use of words like “commingled”, “strewn”, and “moaned” in lines 2-4 make the scene of the meeting of these lovers seem specially erotic. It is not until line 5 that we are given any indication that this lover is not human. The speaker states that her lover “moaned over [her] at night, never tiring / as human lovers do” (4-5). The
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Garden Eden, Note Rossini, , Clare Rossini, mean literally, lifted garden,
Approximate Word count = 778
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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