Answer and Explanation:
This is the poem "Amen" by James Baldwin:
No, I don’t feel death coming.
I feel death going:
having thrown up his hands,
for the moment.
I feel like I know him
better than I did.
Those arms held me,
for a while,
and, when we meet again,
there will be that secret knowledge
between us.
The most obvious poetic device used in this poem is personification. Personification consists of attributing living qualities or human-like qualities to animals or objects. In this case, death is being personified by the author. Death is not a person; it is not a man. It should not have arms to throw up, it should be called "him" and so on. However, by doing this, the author gives death an aura of importance and human-like features and feelings. We are now able to imagine death, its frustration while giving up on taking the author's life for now. We can even empathize with death, if that is even possible.
