To exclude metaphors of human charateristics from poetry would deal it a fatal blow.
(And I don't apologise for using a "pathetic fallacy" in that sentence. I had an English
sinstructor who spent a whole hour warning us not to attribute human mental
processes to animals. He limited "pathetic fallacy" to that.
My idea of pathetic fallacy applies to religion, when we speak of God as some sort
of superhuman. We have no more capability of understanding God than my dog
(if I still had one) would understand what I do with my computer.

I read the Ruskin essay, and i think it is a bunch of crap. His syspepsia had axxumed
control of his thinking.
http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/ruskinj/