Question

Read the poem which follows and select the emotions and imagery of an outsider's perspective of death that also appear in The Sweet Hereafter.

"Every Death Is Magic from the Enemy to Be Avenged" by Brooks Haxton
When fever burned the last light out of my daughter's eyes, I swore to find and kill the ones to blame. Men must mount the long boat in the dark with spears. At dawn, where the flowering spicebush hid my scent, I crouched. A young wife, newborn slung across her chest, came first for spring water. She stooped. My god, for vengeance, spoke her secret name inside my ear. Her god stepped back with no scream, his right hand at his mouth, the knuckles clenched between the pointed teeth.

- The idea of secrets being told

-The idea of assigning blame

- The image of the flowering bush

-The image of the pointy teeth

- The image of the newborn

Answer 1

I believe the emotion is the idea of secrets being told

Answer 2

- The idea of secrets being told.

-The idea of assigning blame.

- The image of the newborn.

Step-by-step explanation:

These are all examples of the emotions and imagery of an outsider's perspective of death. In this passage, the author uses many descriptive images that bring the idea of death to mind. The idea of secrets being told reinforces the "private" and "taboo" nature of death. Moreover, assigning blame also develops the idea of grief and pain. Finally, the newborn is just beginning his life, which contrasts with the idea of someone being at the end of hers.