The Earth Is A Living Thing Poem By Lucille Clifton

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How does nature affect you? In the two poems the authors used free verse form, and personification to show how much they love nature. Lucille Clifton, the author of “The Earth is a Living Thing” uses alliteration more to show her appreciation of the earth. While “Sleeping in the Forest” doesn’t really use any. But both poems are free verse and personify the earth which are only some of the similarities and differences that I will discuss in this essay. Both poems personify the earth frequently. “The Earth is a living Thing” refers to the earth as “a black shuffling bear.” It also reads that the earth is “a favorite child of the universe.” Also “Sleeping in the forest” says that the author “thought the earth remembered me.” She also says that
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