| Of course, thinking that the daffodils were actually extending a welcome to me is a pathetic fallacy. |
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| Of late he had a deeper understanding of pathetic fallacy as Ruskin had called it. |
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| Wordsworth in particular used the pathetic fallacy with great seriousness, not as a decorative device, but its use declined after Ruskin's formulation. |
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| I question this, taking it to be nothing more than idle pathetic fallacy. |
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| The room had darkened, as if obeying the laws of pathetic fallacy. |
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| This elegy is notable for its use of pathetic fallacy in attributing grief to nature. |
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| No pathetic fallacy here, nature remains impervious to human crises. |
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| There's not a great deal to see at the Maypole, though I expected some version of what the literary critics call the pathetic fallacy. |
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| The pathetic fallacy is a category mistake. |
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| Even if I wanted to a writer, knowing the difference between personification and pathetic fallacy won't help much. |
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| The pathetic fallacy is central to the design of Birchwood, the first tale by Banville whose style is relentlessly figurative. |
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| For example, the role of cities as pathetic fallacy for the artist is easy to discern. |
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| Seton's tendency to incorporate the pathetic fallacy into his descriptions of animals at first seems at odds with Errington's sound biological principles. |
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| These descriptions obviously indulge the pathetic fallacy, a hallmark of traditional nature poetry that ecopoetics has striven to rethink because of its anthropocentrism. |
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| Many of these poems displayed what John Ruskin referred to as the pathetic fallacy, the tendency to ascribe human emotions to animals and even inanimate objects. |
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| Pathetic Fallacy is a cardboard form riddled with piercings that sprout long tufts of horsehair. |
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