The emotion is expressed best in the narrator’s escalation through hyperbole in the third stanza regarding the love the speaker feels. They begin in minor ways with the speaker wanting to cut all the phones off and stop all the clocks. Then the hyperboles intensify when the speaker says things like “Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,” (539). The third stanza between the progression of hyperboles in the first and fourth is a few lines that support the theme about how much the speaker loved the deceased. By comparing him to things like North, South, noon, and midnight suggest that this person that just died was the speaker’s everything. He was the single most important thing in her, assuming the speaker is a female, life. All of these hyperboles about how much this man affected her world and how much he meant to her accent the theme
The emotion is expressed best in the narrator’s escalation through hyperbole in the third stanza regarding the love the speaker feels. They begin in minor ways with the speaker wanting to cut all the phones off and stop all the clocks. Then the hyperboles intensify when the speaker says things like “Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,” (539). The third stanza between the progression of hyperboles in the first and fourth is a few lines that support the theme about how much the speaker loved the deceased. By comparing him to things like North, South, noon, and midnight suggest that this person that just died was the speaker’s everything. He was the single most important thing in her, assuming the speaker is a female, life. All of these hyperboles about how much this man affected her world and how much he meant to her accent the theme