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Death Be Not Proud Poem

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Hayley,
I liked the words you found to describe the simile “like the hungry bear in autumn”. I found this metaphor significant as well, but couldn’t quite figure out how to phrase it. What you said about how death can take anybody is very true. More often than not people lose a loved one who was very close to them for an unexpected reason. And although death does take any victim it seems more personal when it’s someone we’re close to.
I found you answer to number 8 different from mine. I didn’t think about she was rejecting it because she believed no one really dies because of an afterlife. I found this interesting because it’s similar to the other poem “Death Be Not Proud” in the sense that the author believes life almost never ends. This

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