02/06 Discussion

"I just want to punch winter in the face"

I believe Nadia said this when she was reading her response to the poem. Why do I remember it? I have no idea, although, it was one of the few things that I wrote down that stood out to me.

Often, I find that I like statements or lines that are something that I don't think of myself. When I was doing the free-writing during class, I never really stopped to possibly put a concrete image to some of the things he was saying. I think the word is personification.

1. the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, esp. as a rhetorical figure.
2. the representation of a thing or abstraction in the form of a person, as in art.
3. the person or thing embodying a quality or the like; an embodiment or incarnation: He is the personification of tact.

Why do I like this statement so much? Probably because I too would like to make a person out of winter and punch him in the face.