How did poetry encapsulate the problems and reactions of the Elisabeathen time?

whatever is after like is what is being compared they are comparing bumping into you like they are scared to catch germs you have and to you being contagious

the grass-plot before the jail, in prison lane, on a certain summer morning, not less than two centuries ago, was occupied by a pretty large number of the inhabitants of boston; all with their eyes intently fastened on the iron-clamped oaken door.

— the scarlet letter,

nathaniel hawthorne

''eyes intently fastened''

''iron-clamped oaken door''

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