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In telephone he talks about the day he found out his dearest had died. In the poem it states,“When I was just as far as I could walk/From here to-day,/There was an hour/All still” ( II 1-4). First he goes into shock. I know people who feels like the whole world stops, when someone they care about dies. In the line when I was just as far as I could walk, is talking about how he is done and he is on the edge. The figurative language in the sentence is hyperbole because the line being is exaggerating, how much he has walked. When he is only talking about his emotions not stopping. In line from here to-day is saying about how long he has been grieving. For just a short time period of time but feel like it has been for ages. In the lines there was
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