Personifikasie van Jerusalem in die boek Klaagliedere

M.A. (Biblical Studies)The aim of this study is idiom, personification, and book of Lamentations. to investigate the use thereof the metaphorical as found in the The method that has been justified combination of exegetic steps. Work has chapters, but the book as followed in this investigation is a both the synchronous and diachronic primarily been done on the first two a whole has also been implicated. Within the use of personification as poetic language functioning in the respective lamentations, the poet highlights the sorrow of Jerusalem to the reader. Jerusalem is 'presented to the reader by means of personification figures, e.g. widow, empress, conscript and daughter of Zion. Personification creates stress and expectations on the part of the reader. The personified Jerusalem enters into conversation with God as well as the passersby, and this prompts the forming of dialogue. The attention of the reader is drawn and kept by the use of the direct as well as the indirect speech of the poet. The reason for the fall of Jerusalem, viz. her sins, is discovered by means of dialogue which is formed with the help of personification. The destruction is God's way of punishing her for her sins. perand upon reader The characteristics of the different personalities of sonification, e.g. mourn, loneliness, conversation, eye mouth, allow the reader to experience the grief imposed Jerusalem. The grief of Jerusalem is described to the in terms of human characteristics (personification). By using personification, the poet highlights the relationships between the widow and, respectively, God, friends and enemies. It is mentioned how these relationships had been in the past, as well as the way they are now after the destruction of Jerusalem. The poet's use of personification as poetic idiom results in the reader becoming involved in the grief inflicted upon Jerusalem and in this way the grief is accentuated strongly