Great Regulars: She felt motivated to rise out

of her coffin, but she was unable to do so; of course, death had immobilized her physical body, but her mind was still capable of comprehending her environment.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: December Poet--Emily Dickinson

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The speaker then adds an impossible comparison: his life will shut like a flower imagining the fall of snow.

The reader can only guess at how a flower might feel, and when the reader does so, s/he will probably just be thinking about s/he (the reader) feels with snow "descending" "carefully everywhere."

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: A Flawed Love Poem

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However, the claim that "Somebody" committed those heinous acts is utterly disingenuous. Everybody knows who did it. By implying that he does not know who "blew up America," the speaker places himself with the conspiracy theorists, the truthers who claim that it was not "terrorist" who commandeered those planes, but the U. S. government.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Poet Laureate Loses Laureateship

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