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A Dog's Death Updike Analysis
The poem A Dog’s Death is about loyalty, love, and compassion. John Updike is giving his readers, in depth, the pain of losing something you love. In this case, the “something” is a dog, the most loyal creatures on the Earth. There are a large quantity of lines in this poem that make you feel emotion. The atmosphere makes your heart sink, you feel empathy for the family in this poem. A line in this poem that made my heart drop is “And her heart was learning to lie down forever”. This line is very powerful is essence that the heart is going to rest, which when talking about a heart, is death. I personally have a dog, and I love her to death. This makes an even bigger mark on my heart because I can’t imagine losing her right now. Dogs bring
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