Can you identify examples of personification and apostrophe in “Hands”?

What will be an ideal response?


In the first two thirds of the poem (lines 1–8), the speaker describes the cave paintings in a relatively straightforward manner, employing only two figures of speech, the metaphor cloud in line 3 and the simile like a sealed message in line 8. This simile sets up the passage in quotation marks that concludes the poem, and it is in these last four lines that we find personification, in endowing these “[s]igns-manual” with the ability to reason and to speak articulately, and apostrophe, in their direct address to those who view them.

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