Prior to this, the poem "Richard Bone" by Edgar Lee Masters is trying to portray the loss of someone who has passed away but had a gruesome past that potentially hurt a lot of people.He also shows throughout the poem how once people die the lies begin as he states, "made myself party to the false chronicles" in other words he is saying that he has been added to all the lies people say about the dead as in creating their own personal perspective on what their family member would have been like if they were still alive.The author also talks about how everyone is manipulated to lie about how the person was when they were alive and have to hide the …show more content…
In conclusion, the author uses all these devices to form an emotio=al aspect of his writing to convey us to feel similar emotions to what he is writing about.He uses a lot of emotional words in his poem to make us feel the hurt about how lies can crat bigger lies that not only harm you but everyone around u as well.In this poem, he mostly uses mood, tone, metaphors, and exaggerations to pass on that emotional aspect of the