In Robinson Jeffers' poem "Hands," discuss the poet’s use of figures of speech.

"Hands" by Robinson Jeffers primarily offers visual
imagery as the prominent literary device, such as 'brown shy quiet people." Nonetheless,
Jeffers does employ the trope of figurative speech, which is speech that is not meant to
be taken literally but that twists the literal meaning to produce a meaning that exceeds
the individual words, e.g., he's the top brass. Some figures of speech Jeffers employs
are simile, metaphor and personification.

Simile is present
in "Signs-manual are now like a sealed message." Simile compares two unlike things
through the associating words like, as, or as
though. In this case, "Signs-manual" is associated with the term it's
compared with ("sealed message") through the use of
like.

Metaphor is present in "A
multitude of hands in the twilight, a cloud of men’s palms." Metaphor compares two
unlike things but does so, in contrast to simile, without using the associating
words like, as, or as though. In this case,
"hands in the twilight" is compared to "a cloud of men's palms," with no associating
word to link them in the comparison.

Personification is
present in "Saying: “Look: we also were human; we had hands, not paws" and in "In the
beautiful country; enjoy her a season, her beauty." In the first, the "Signs-manual" of
the preceding line are presented as having spoken words. This is personification, which
is the assignment of human attributes or qualities to inanimate objects. In the second
case, "the beautiful country" is personified through the assigned attributes of
personhood ("her") and beauty ("her beauty").