(1) Emily Dickenson uses imagery to paint a picture of loss. (2)While the title and topic of the poem refer to Autumn, much of the imagery used describes what is not present: “the bustle in the brook” is still and silent; the “Golden Rod” is gone. (3) The lines portray a sense of loss for the sounds and images that are absent in the fall. (4) Maybe you know what that looks like if you ever lived in a cold climate. (5) The last lines of the poem enforce this idea by asking for divine help to remain sunny – a summer image – in the windy season of fall. (6) Dickenson’s use of imagery throughout the poem creates a sense of loss for the reader. Which line of the analysis should be omitted as it does not match the tone and style?

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Match each excerpt to the correct stanza structure. 1. it was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of annabel lee; and this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me. (from "annabel lee" by edgar allan poe) 2. o thou, new-year, delaying long, delayest the sorrow in my blood, that longs to burst a frozen bud and flood a fresher throat with song. (from "in memoriam" by alfred lord tennyson) 3. nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. her early leaf’s a flower but only so an hour. then leaf subsides to leaf. so eden sank to grief,; so dawn goes down to day. nothing gold can stay. (from "nothing gold can stay" by robert frost) 4. at sestos hero dwelt; hero the fair, whom young apollo courted for her hair, and offered as a dower his burning throne, where she should sit for men to gaze upon. the outside of her garments were of lawn, the lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn; (from "hero and leander" by christopher marlowe) quatrain couplet octave sestet