Reading Log Poetry

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reading log poetry #2 incident in a rose garden short answer

When the gardener saw death he instantly recognized him even though he has never seen him before. “ I knew him by the pictures” (justice line 4) Death was wearing a black coat ,black gloves , and a black hat. The gardener thought that death came for him so he went running to his master. Death told the gardener he did wrong by running away because he did not come for the gardener he came for his master.

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In the poem Death is is wearing black. First of all black is a very shallow color that has no feelings it is just a sad color with nothing vivid about it. In the poem it is said that death is a thin as a scythe it is because in pictures Death uses a scythe to get the people that need to die. finally i would personify Death as a sad, faceless body that has hidden feeling behind his hard outer shell. As one can see Death is
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In the poem The Listeners the Traveler made a promise that he would go to this house but when he went he found no one. When he found no one at the house he felt like ghosts where in the house so he said “Tell them i came and no one answered” (de la mare line 27) The traveler might have gone to the house because he had a message because he had nothing except a horse. The listeners are ghosts . the people that lived in the house might have died. As one can see the traveler kept his promise but did not find anybody so he told the ghosts to tell the owners of the house that he kept his promise and

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