Personification

Question

Is this personification "while its fellows soared" in this the auther is talking about clubs flying through the air.

Answer 1

According to Schakel and Ridl personification is defined as " a figure of speech in which something non-human is treated as if it had human characteristics or actions." (Schakel and Ridl, p 1143) This means that that you need to take an object and make it appear or act human.

Based on the quote you gave I would not classify that as personification. A better example of personification being used is the poem "Books Die" by Valzhyna Mort. In this poem books take on the characteristics of people as she likens a house to a cementary and mass grave for books.

But I think the ending gives the most human qualities to the books:

and the most sensitive book

stays forever

in a cold bed

covering its head with a pillow

suppressing the scream of its black letters (Mort, lines 22-26)

This truly embodies how an object can take on human characteristics.

https://poetry.lib.uidaho.edu/poems/untitled-1-2/