1. how does this poem fit the ballad form? cite evidence from the text to support your response. 2. how would you describe the speaker and her relationship with the character death?

1. A ballad is a poem that narrates a story. One characteristic of a ballad is that it follows abcb rhyme scheme and it is written in quatrains. Dickinson uses slant rhyme in her poem to follow the rhyme scheme in most of her poem.

Example: Me and immortality; away and civility

On the other hand, Dickinson is narrating a story in which death (personification) stops to pick her up and take her on a journey.

"Because I could not stop for Death –

He kindly stopped for me "

In the journey they pass through a school (3rd quatrain), some fields (3d quatrain), a grave (5th quatrain).

2. The relationship of the speaker and the character Death is civil. In the second quatrain the speaker reminds the reader of death's civility. However, the mood that is set in the poem is rather sad and nostalgic. Death is a gentleman by taking the speaker on a journey through the main stages in one's life. The speaker ends up being sympathetic to Death, and Death is kind to the speaker as shown in the first quatrain. One is too busy to stop for Death, but the speaker who shows no resistance to embark on a journey with him.

in love in the air by ha jin, abstract language is presented throughout the story because kang imagined himself in a relationship with a girl he has never met, but only spoke to on over the phone. on the other hand, cervantes uses parody in don qixote, which is a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing.

question:

it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.