Beneath Clouds was created in 2002.

Personification

The duration of The Sun Behind the Clouds is 1.32 hours.

Signs to look for:

a lowering of the cloud base

rotation in the clouds

a hole in the clouds at the back of a thunderstorm

Swirling dust beneath the lowered clouds

The clause "the happy clouds scanned the ground beneath them" is an example of the literary device of personification. Personification is the attribution of human form or characteristics to some inanimate thing. In this sentence, inanimate clouds are described as "happy" (a human emotion) and as "scanning the ground" (a human faculty). Clouds of course do not actually feel "happy" or "scan the ground," but the author uses the device of personification to lend a human quality to a scene and to forge a certain mood.