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In Muellers poem "Hope," there are multiple uses of different imageries to make the poem more powerful for the reader. For example, the line "it shakes sleep from its eyes and drops from mushroom gills," is an example of tactile imagery because the poet tries to portray that hope lies within the gills of mushrooms which are under the mushroom head. There is hope within these gills because they are the smallest things and in order for the mushroom to survive, it mush drop from these gills into the earth. The gills themselves are rigged and give a great example of tactile imagery. An example of olfactory imagery is the line "it lives in each earthworm segment surviving cruelty." The poet in this line is trying to show that hope even lies

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