Summary Of The Death Of A Toad

In “The Death of a Toad” Richard Wilburn has described the death of a slow dying toad. As this toad is dying Wilburn has described him and told his last few minutes of living; he has used diction, imagery, and structure to explain how the life of an amphibian has ended.

Diction has came to uses in various occasions in this poem “To the garden verge, and sanctuaries.” Sanctuaries is being defined as a safe place. The dying toad is being said that he is now in a safe place not only because he has tried to hide in the leaves of the garden but because of him dying all his suffrage is soon to be gone to never suffer again. Wizened Richard says that the right thing for the toad was to died not only because the poor toad had just been ran over