Persona refers to the person that the poet creates to tell the story in the poem? So who is the persona in this poem?
- The voice used in the poem The River is a ‘he’, which is the third person pronoun.
- The persona describes what he sees, feels and hears about the river.
- Some of the descriptions relate to his life’s experiences and knowledge about how a river flows – upstream to downstream.
- The persona provides details about where the river starts; meandering through the hills and valleys and finally, ending up in the sea or ocean.
- Apart from being gentle, the persona also warns that the river can be destructive to both nature and Man.
