Death of a Toad

People have many different ways of dealing with one of the most feared and respected portion of the human life cycle, death. Death is unavoidable, and we all meet our ends sooner or later. Many people react to the death of a loved one with remorse and sadness, some rejoice it as beginning of the afterlife, but no matter how we deal with death, we all come to accept it. In Richard Wilbur's poem "The …showed first 75 words of 379 total…

…showed last 75 words of 379 total…glade." The author's choice to create an image of "Heartshaped leaves" also helps to give a degree of beauty to the death of this frog as we are given this view of a frog dying under a silvery planted shaped like a heart. As we can see in the first paragraph, the author integrates a nice variety of images and diction choices to express the author's view of acceptance and respect toward ominescense of death.