Khalil Gibran's poem "Song of the Rain" includes several poetic devices, one of which is personification. Personification is the attribution of human characteristics to something non-human, such as an animal or inanimate object. Several instances of this poetic device appear over the course of Gibran's text:
- "Nature then takes me / To adorn her fields and valleys" - In this case, Nature is given a gender (her = female) and performs the action of adorning or decorating.
- "When I cry the hills laugh" - The hills perform the act of laughing, insinuating a sense of humor as well as animation.
- "When I humble myself the flowers rejoice" - The flowers perform the act of rejoicing; like the previous example, this allows a degree of consciousness, because they rejoice in response to something the narrator does
There are several more examples across the poem equally effective in demonstrating the use of personification in Gibran's work.
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