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2- The first time reading this poem, I got through the first stanza easily, but started to have more trouble when beginning to read the second stanza. What I gathered by my first reading, is that there are men going somewhere because they have to, and their loved ones do not want them to go.
3- To understand this poem better after reading allowed, I had to look up the definition of a number of words.
Sigh-tempests- this is a hyperbole and exaggeration similar to the phrase "cry me a river"
Trepidation- fear or being alarmed
Sublunary- being between the earth and the moon
Laity- a commoner, or in my understanding, just a random person
After reading this allowed, I realized that the poem is about death, not men leaving a town. I think this poem is about and man dying with his friends and family around him, and they are having a hard time letting go.
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In stanza one, I think there is a narrator narrating what is going on. I think this is the case for stanza three and four as well. I think that stanza two is his friends and family speaking, and the final stanza the man is speaking.
5- I think that the main audience is the man who is dying, watching his friends and family surround him. I also think the woman he loves is the audience because she hears his family and friends speak about the death and what the man says right before he dies also.
6- The occasion of the poem is that a man is dying of an unknown cause, and his family and friends surround him and try to make peace with the situation.

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