comment on theme

Personification is a motif woven throughout Travers’ novel which helps develop the book’s mood through its evocation of magic. Several examples of this literary device are present in the novel, most often accompanying the presence of Mary Poppins, the book’s central and most ‘magical’ figure, creating a link between Mary Poppins and magic and imbuing the entire mood of the novel with this same spirit. The overall effect of the constant use of personification is to bring a bit of Mary Poppins’ personality into all elements of the book, even its prose descriptions.