... Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone" in a matter of letting the reader when someone passes away that silence is of the essence. On the contrary, Dickinson shapes a suspenseful atmosphere for the reader because death usually does not randomly stop for anyone; it is an immediate natural process. ... quot; (Dickinson 3-4). This is interesting because she utilizes immortality in a sense of the afterlife, trying to let the reader know that is already dead. Auden, on the other hand, uses imagery in a different way. Auden states, "Silence the pianos and with muffled drum bring out the co...

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... feeling of loss as he is upset that he has lost his wife and regrets the way their marriage ended up. Hardy's loneliness is shown when he quotes: 'You were weak and lame/So you never came,' This means Hardy went out without his wife's company and was alone even though they could ... set out like a pathway which illustrates an image of the walk Hardy took. This helps the poem become more interesting to read as we can picture Hardy on his walks whilst reading the poem. Another structural technique used by Hardy is enjambment: 'I walked up there today/Just in the former way' This m...

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... lines: "Today begins cold and bright, the ground heavy with snow and the thick masonry of ice, the sun glinting off the turrets of clouds." The sadness really piles on to a reader. The lines, "Today begins cold and bright/the ground heavy with snow/and the thick masonry of ice" makes me believe that the ... all of the days of the past are stacked high as in the lines, "all the days of the past stacked high." Here the author symbolizes and quotes "the impossible tower of dishes" to symbolize the fact that no matter how magnificent life can be, it can all change at any given moment. To ......

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• Grade Level: High School