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Tropical Paradise. We often see commercials of Tropical Vacations and dream of better days sitting under the sun with a drink in our hands. What is it about the tropics we so enduring? What lures us to these places? In colder climates during the winter months plants have acclimated to the climate. They can take freezing temperatures and months of snow and ice. However tropical plants are not capable of surviving these climates. But we still long for that Tropical fruit we buy in the store for outrageous prices. What if we could go over to a tropical tree, select a ripe fruit and eat it right then and there, while outside a blizzard is taking place? Our own tropical paradise, right inside out own home. Many tropical plants will grow with the right care and conditions in areas that normally would not permit them. These same plants that grow in abundance in Asia, South America, Africa, can grow right in your own living room, ready to pluck the ripe, sweet fruit grown specifical...

Personification in Poems & Poetry Personification is the treating of an inanimate object as if it were animate and is probably the most beautiful and effective of all the figures of speech. Personification depends much on a vivid imagination and is adapted especially to poetical composition. It has two distinguishable forms: When personality is ascribed to the inanimate as in "The mountains sing together, the hills rejoice and clap their hands."   When some quality of life is attributed to the inanimate; as, a raging storm; an angry sea; a whistling wind, etc.  Examples of Personification in Poems & Poetry Poems with Personification examples can be found by the most famous poets including John Milton and Robert Frost "Confusion heards his voice.'' from Paradise Lost - Book 3 by John Milton Another example of personification from Paradise Lost by John Milton "Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing, through all her works, gave signs of...