After naming the first two acts, the stage manager says, "there's another act coming after this: i reckon you can guess what that's about." what do you think act iii will be about?

The first thought the reader might have is "The third act will be about old age and death". However, the third act turns out to be about death (early death, in the case of Emily and her second child) and afterlife, or, to be more precise, about how unaware we are about all the things in life that we should appreciate but usually take for granted; we do not stop to really see each other, as though we had all the time in the world ahead of us to do so, without ever realizing how fleeting the precious things in life are and how little time we have for being together.

dickinson punctuation and lines in her poems to establish a rhythm. each reader will naturally find themselves reading the poem in the same way. she uses the repeating question marks and exclamation points to convey the passion in her words. shelley uses punctuation to paint a picture in the reader's mind. for example, the ellipses after "stand in the dessert" evoke a silence, as it would feel in a deserted, old place.