In this paragraph Shelly uses personification and hyperbole to give a strong effect to what he is saying aswell as making it slightly sarcastic and have a sense of humor . He uses personification where he says that the mountains actually “kiss the heavens and the sunlight clasps the earth” mountains don’t actually kiss the heavens but because he uses natural elements to describe the actions of what he would like to do to the girl , it has a strong effect of what and how the girl might think and some what even change the way she thinks completely he uses hyperbole when he talks about them not being together is almost unnatural because all these other natural elements are together so why can’t they be. Them not being together isn’t unnatural but it’s sort of a sarcastic joke which is a way of loring her in . The fact that he uses personification and hyperbole in this poem changes the way the girl original throughly about him