You need to write a five-page essay on leo tolstoy’s novel the death of ivan ilych. which of the following is a good topic for your essay?

a.) the use of symbolism in literature

b.) the symbolism of death in popular literature

c.) the literary devices that tolstoy employed in his works

d.) the use of figurative language in the death of ivan ilych

If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. that strain again! it had a dying fall: o, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odour! now read the excerpt from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock." for i have known them all already, known them all: have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, i have measured out my life with coffee spoons; i know the voices dying with a dying fall beneath the music from a farther room. what does the phrase "dying fall" most likely mean in both excerpts