The Mower

English Class Notes

The Mower
Style

The Last stanza is a couplet
Stanza
Stanza 3/3/3/2 (333x2=666—connection with title-is the mower a devilish figure)

Symbolism (In the Zodiac, a hedgehog can represent: happiness, energy Does the mower kill happiness an energy (in the persona?)

Hedgehog –symbolic of…
-thorny outside
-cute
-you can hold it in a certain way comfortably, but hold it a different way it can hurt
-Small
-Mammel
-innocent

The use of enjambment/punctuation emphasizes specific words and phrases
Killed, unmendably, burial was no help. We should be careful, once twice kneeling mauled

-ed verbs

assonce/consonance
-ED sounds
-Hard S sounds
-Kind/Time