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Read the excerpts from the poem. What do these excerpts suggest about the speaker’s feelings towards the corpse?

“…how I cursed that load.” “... how I loathed the thing.”
“There wasn’t a breath in that land of death…”


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Explanation:

The writer uses hateful verbs like 'cursed' and 'loathed which shows their hatred towards the corpse.These strong verbs also could show that the writer cannot bear the look of the corpse as it is so horrible and disgusting that it has cause them to feel this extreme feeling of hatred. The water says "there wasn't a breath in that land of death" the phrase 'land of death' suggests that the corpse the writer is describing is an extreme presentation of death and also the fact it could be rather large, hence 'land'. 'Land of death also suggests that the corpse is an accurate representation of death as this phrase makes us think of a lifeless land, much like the corpse. This image is disturbing and creepy.