THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
PAUL REVERE BIOGRAPHY FACTS QUOTES
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to describe a British warship of the time
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to let readers know what is coming next
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to increase the pace of the action
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to establish a tense, spooky mood
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Detailed explanation-1: -The proceedings then continue for three stanzas, as the mourners sit for a service and carry a “Box, ” (i.e. a coffin) through the speaker. This suggests that despair can feel like a funeral procession for an unknown person.
Detailed explanation-2: -These final lines recall the very first time the speaker encountered the horse-drawn carriage and had a feeling that they were more than just regular horses – that they signified her journey to the afterlife.
Detailed explanation-3: -Dickinson uses the metaphor of a funeral to represent the speaker’s sense that a part of her is dying, that is, her reason is being overwhelmed by the irrationality of the unconscious. A funeral is an appropriate image for this ordeal. The most obvious connotation with a funeral is death.
Detailed explanation-4: -Stanza 3 is a review of the writer’s journey in life starting from childhood, through maturity to death. Dickinson presents this symbolically from school (childhood), through the fields of gazing grain (maturity), to sunset (death).