Charles Baudelaire: Poems
Does the poem "To The Reader" use figurative lanuage?
does it contain simile, metaphors, or personification.
does it contain simile, metaphors, or personification.
In short, yes, it uses lot of figurative language. A few examples:
There is a simile in the first stanza: "we feed our pleasant remorse
As beggars nourish their vermin."
The next line personifies qualities by giving them human characteristics: "Our sins are obstinate, our repentance is faint;"
Overall, the whole poem dabbles in metaphor, talking about our sinfulness as being controlled by devils, our sins as animals, etc. It's chock full of figurative language.