... 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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