... did end their race: Apollo hunted Daphne so Only that she might laurel grow And Pan did after Syrinx speed Not as a nymph, but for a reed What the garden does is the clarifying the mind's view of its desires and purposes, it reveals our true motives. Later - a reference to Ovid's Metamorphoses. Apollo fell ... he falls softly on the grass. On the other hand, this fall may be the reference to the biblical Fall - the author could be afraid of losing his garden. Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less Withdraws into its happiness The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own re...

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... i! n a quatrain gives the poem unity and makes it easy to read. "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" starts to gives the reader a feeling of forward movement throughout the second and third quatrain. For example, in line 5, Dickinson begins death's journey with a slow, forward movement, which can be seen as ... she writes, "We slowly drove-He knew no haste." The third quatrain seems to speed up as the trinity of death, immortality, and the speaker pass the children playing, the fields of grain, and the setting sun one after another. The poem seems to get faster as life goes through ... p...

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