| Wordsworth in particular used the pathetic fallacy with great seriousness, not as a decorative device, but its use declined after Ruskin's formulation. |
| Even if I wanted to a writer, knowing the difference between personification and pathetic fallacy won't help much. |
| The disrepute of the pathetic fallacy has come from making the forest sentimental. |
| This elegy is notable for its use of pathetic fallacy in attributing grief to nature. |
| I question this, taking it to be nothing more than idle pathetic fallacy. |
| Of course, thinking that the daffodils were actually extending a welcome to me is a pathetic fallacy. |
