SCIENCE, RELIGION, and PERSONIFICATION in POETRY - Bump

This entry is somewhat of an extension of last time's entry. As Bump states, "one of the most powerful and meaningful of all dominant metaphors of Western civilization is the personification of nature - the assertion of some sense of identity between man and nature, powerful because it is one of the languages that puts man in the landscape and the landscape in the man." Personification helps us understand/relate/become closer to nature because there seems to be this feeling that humans can only really relate to other human-like things. Our society's anthropocentricity forces us to anthropomorphize things. It is a form of analogy in that we relate one thing to another in order to help us understand.