... portrayed between "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone" and "Because I could not stop for Death" due to the use of the authors tone, imagery, and personification throughout the poems. W.H. Auden and Emily Dickinson utilize a distinct tone that is noticeable by simply looking at the titles "Because I could not stop for Death" and "Stop all the ... my labor and my leisure too, for his civility" (Dickinson, lines 5-8). Dickinson gives death the characteristics of a human being by making death appear civil and well-mannered because they are slowly strolling along when death is a natur...

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Poet of Many Personas Emily Dickinson is a poet of many faces. She often writes through many different personas who are easy to relate to. One of her greatest techniques is to write about the particulars of her emotions in an adage-like tone. Dickinson uses the connotation of the sea and slant rhyme in "Wild Nights-Wild Nights" and irony to dispel a somber tone about God in "I Heard a ... quatrain, and the connotation of "Ah- the Sea!" (9) leaves room for many interpretations. The sea could mean the female body or be imagery for passion and lust. The choice of "Our luxury" (4) is denotation of...

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