Pathetic Fallacy Definition | What is Pathetic Fallacy? - PoetrySoup
Definition
[n] the fallacy of attributing human feelings to inanimate objects; `the friendly sun' is an example of the pathetic fallacy
Term coined by Ruskin to describe a tendency of poets (particularly Wordsworth) and painters to attribute human feelings to nature.
See Also...
fallacy, false belief
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