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Why does Theodore Roethke compare Jane to birds in "Elegy for Jane"?

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to emphasize her symbolic flight to heaven.

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This poem emphasizes the theme of innocence when describing the young girl, using repeated comparisons to animals and plants. The act of losing something so pure, so innocent, so perfect, makes the loss of the girl's life so much harder on the speaker.
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