Two Sunflowers Move in the Yellow Room.

"Ah, William, we're weary of weather,"
said the sunflowers, shining with dew.
"Our traveling habits have tired us.
Can you give us a room with a view?"

They arranged themselves at the window
and counted the steps of the sun,
and they both took root in the carpet
where the topaz tortoises run.

BY: William Blake


“Two Sunflowers Move in the Yellow Room,” is a terrific example of personification at its finest. The Sunflowers, weary of rain are looking for a “room with a view” where they can take “root in the carpet.” Blake also does great jobs with catchy phrases and brilliant imagery. This poem can easily be enjoyed by any age, making it very versatile. William Blake created an allusion of humanistic sunflowers by applying detailed traits to them.

Personification is a useful technique that can be applied to poetry. Personification is the attribution of human characteristics to a non-human object. Blake applies this technique throughout, “Two Sunflowers Move in the Yellow Room,” by express human traits in sunflowers. They speak, and travel just as a pair of people would. By giving the sunflowers human characteristics Blake allows for them to become more relatable to the reader. These non-human character essentially resemble something very relatable that the reader can significantly connect easier with them. This technique is easily applicable and readers respond well to it.