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In this essay the candidate does a good job at getting their points across by suporting them with citations and detailed explanations, exploring the meaning of the words in the quotes and understanding what the persona wants to express. They do not assume they know what the poet is expressing, using words like 'seems' when explaining the poem, leaving space for a doubt and making it clear that this is what the candidate interpretates from the poem.
The introduction is short, concise. It contains the thesis and directly answers the given essay question, "the poet is able to transmit different images and ideas". It could have contained more information about the poem to make it more complete. For
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