Analysis Of The Poem Death Over Water Poem

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Death Over Water Death Over Water by Elizabeth Rhett Woods is a poem about an eagle that is attacking a gull. The relationship between the eagle and the gull is similar to that of a pair of ice dancers. Firstly, the way the eagle moves in the air, “parallel like the male part of a pair of ice dancers spreading his dark arms above his partners every move,” shows how the eagle is the leader of the gull. Which is resembles a male dancer who is in control of the lady. The crows that are observing this battle act as an audience of people watching the ice dancers. “Those scraps of scorched confetti screeching as they swirl around the death duo spiralling lower,” is the audience who would be watching the dancers from every direction. “The suddenly
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