Personification Exercise: The City

by I-Mars

This is a class poem focusing on personification as a literary device. Each I-Mars student was asked to write one line about the city and what it does.

The city wakes up early to give us a brand-new day
It starts the day anew with a yawn at dawn
It is awakened by the rising sun,
It is awakened by the rumbling of the cars.

The city feels these sounds crawl past as rays of light touch the paths
It gets busier and busier as seconds and minutes pass
It moves with hurrying people - old or young
It moves through the overpass into the students' class.

The city is always in a hurry like a father going to the office
It rushes to its job after taking a bath, when it looks neat and smells good
It smiles like a baby searching for its mom
It smiles after surviving a powerful storm.


The city plays with the children on the streets
It dances with the music that surrounds it
It sings with the people on the road
It sings with the jeepneys and the radios.

The city finds difficulty in breathing polluted air,
But it eats everything it wants from the fastfood chains
It follows the fashion of the time
The city is a lot of fun.

The city grows from its small state
It is changed by good leaders who care
Sometimes it stays up late to celebrate
But tonight it sleeps early, tired from all the day's work.