Does something that has been completed continue as life in a dream?

When we start something new, such as a new apartment, new school, new job, etc. and end it at some point, e.g. moving, changing jobs, etc. Example scenario: Person XY moves to school XY in 1994 and starts 5th grade. Person XY graduates from secondary school in 2000 at school XY After the last day…

The streets flash endlessly = personification?

The verse highlighted in bold is classified as a personification on various websites. I'm wondering whether a) this is correct and b) what this classification is based on. In my opinion, the streets aren't associated with any human characteristic. What do you think? Thank you! The train station?! Where?! My questions fall silent, eerily silent….

Is it a metaphor?

Hey, I have to write a poem for school in which I revive a dead metaphor. I would have tried the metaphor "losing a word," but I'm not sure whether that's a metaphor or a dead metaphor. Originally, I wanted to revive "not losing a word," but that didn't make sense in the context of…