Why should we use personification? Would not simply describing the object in question with physical traits give a more clear, precise, and distinct grasp of the concept? Will this literary tool give a distorted view of reality?
No, if used correctly, personification will result in not a muddled idea, but a greater understanding of it. For attributing human qualities or actions to non-humans will increase our connection to the non-human, since the characteristics which we know best, of course, are our own. Using it, we become far more intimate with the object's deeper concepts than we possibly can using terms which are normally associated with it.
It's simply of looking at the matter from a different angle, and it can very well change the way we know that thing.
