"As an ex-animal, I look fondly on her excesses and simplicities, and would not return to them; taking no marks for what I have become, merely that my nine lives peal in my ears again and again, ring in these austerities". The persona is reflecting on the past fondly and remembering when she behaved like an animal. The persona is reflecting the time in each person's life were they go a little crazy and do things that they were not supposed to do. ... She is fighting the urge to follow her animal instinct and do what she did as a younger person. She wants to return to the time when she wa...

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Instead of distancing the animals from the humans, he likens them. ... Perhaps Byron is expressing that, in death, humans and animals are not as different as they appear. ... However, Byron distances the animal most likened to humans, the dog. ... In this description, the dog is more human-like than the other animals, and even the other humans. ... These two beings, supposed to be almighty and powerful, are described in the same way as mortal beings, and in fact, die soon after the end of humanity. ...

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Instead of distancing the animals from the humans, he likens them. ... Perhaps Byron is expressing that, in death, humans and animals are not as different as they appear. ... However, Byron distances the animal most likened to humans, the dog. ... In this description, the dog is more human-like than the other animals, and even the other humans. ... These two beings, supposed to be almighty and powerful, are described in the same way as mortal beings, and in fact, die soon after the end of humanity. ...

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Death is fearless, beautiful and free. This is how society should think of death. However, the fear of death is a prominent part of society today. It has almost become mysterious to some. Society is for the most part afraid of death because it is an unknown. Most individual's retreat from what ...

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My mother has spent endless nights in the hospital with me, screaming at doctors because they are doctors, and they are supposed to know what is wrong. ... When I finally started getting better, my mother and I took all of the kids stuffed animals to remember me because I wasn't going to be there anymore. ...

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