Through the use of these various literary devices, the speaker is not only able to draw the audience into the history of the poem, but also shares his involvement in the war, and place the events of the war inside the lives and hearts of his audience. ... This merging together is not only on a seeming level, as his face spirits "inside" the granite, digging beyond the surface into the interior of the rock. ... Smoke adds a bizarre quality, as smoke vanishes into thin air just as it appears, and is a direct disparity to the memorial, with names everlastingly inscribed of those who d...

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