Personification

I love personification in literature. There's something about making an inanimate object or idea--okay, let's just call it a noun--real, personable. There's something about loving Air as a thing separate from a necessity. Something about thinking that Hope is tangible. Is real. Is living. Not just a word and an idea used to describe the way you feel during a sporting event. Having those things--those concepts--those NOUNS be more than just words is what makes them relatable. Wondering if maybe Hope isn't always happy? What why is it that Air isn't always still? What makes the restlessness of her push the trees back and forth ever so slowly? When they become real--when they become more than a word in poetry or an idea that is commonly used then Hope breathes and comes to life. Then Air stirrs not only the trees, but my heart as well.