Niki Lacroix

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[Niki Lacroix @nikilacroixrns]

Personification: "An old year" #e12a1

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Themes: nature, life vs. death, birth #e12a1

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When the sky is mentioned, so is rain. Change in diction in fourth stanza as if the rain is meant to cleanse #e12a1

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Planting of a tree symbolizing death of newborn child, ironic because trees grow and the child isn't growing anymore #e12a1

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Mentioning of male figures (brother, father, sons) until last stanza (mother, niece) with death imagery (brothers dead, beauty ashes) #e12a1

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"When he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you and, sponge, you shall be dry again" #metaphor #e12a1

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"Yet thy cictatrice looks raw and red" #imagery #e12a1

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"Mad as the sea and wind when both contend which is the mightier" #simile #hyperbole #e12a1

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"I am glad of it: a knavish speech in a foolish ear" #personification #e12a1

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"But, like the owner of a foul disease, to keep it from divulging, let it feed even on the pith of life" #simile #e12a1

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"Transport his poisoned shot, may miss our name and hit the woundless air" #personification #e12a1

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Why doesn't the ghost say anything? #e12a1

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The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn #e12a1

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Do the guards like Hamlet? #e12a1

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Disasters in the sun and the moist star #e12a1

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Touching this dreaded sight twice seen of us #e12a1