In reference to the poem "A September Night" by George Marion McClellan, explain how personification is used to describe the bayou in Anguilla. What...

The poem
"A September Night" by George Marion McClellan describes, from the perspective of a
white colonist narrator, a scene that he is watching and that he considers beautiful. The
narrator personifies the bayou to try to describe this apparent beauty by saying it has a
"face...gemmed with stars," referring to the reflection of the night sky all over the
surface of the water except for the places which are obscured by the shadows of trees. The
narrator also describes the waters of the bayou as "half-asleep" and as creeping and
stretching in the manner of a sleepy person all along the edge of the island and through the
reeds. These descriptions, which are rooted in comparisons to human traits, are all considered
.