The Speaker's Response To The Toad Death

Death comes unexpectedly, yet there is always comfort in familiar places, and in death it’s self. The speaker’s response to the death of the toad is revealed using the formal elements of structure, diction and imagery. The structure of the poem helps to show the speaker’s response to the death. The poems structure is laid out in steps; first with the cutting of the toad’s leg, “A toad the power mower caught, chewed and clipped of a leg.” Secondly, with the laying under the cineraria leaves, “With a hobbling hop has got under the cineraria leaves.” Last part if the structure reveals the toad’s final thoughts and its final hour of living, “As still as stone, and soundlessly attending, dies toward deep monotone.” The diction portrays the importance