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The Wind Tapped Like A Tired Man
In the poems The Wind, by James Stephens, and the poem The Wind Tapped Like a Tired Man, by Emily Dickinson, both discuss the same topic, but share different opinions on it. The Wind has a negative connotation that goes along with wind, while The Wind Tapped Like a Tired Man, has a positive one. The feelings evoked in The Wind, are scary and symbolize a violent wind, like a storm. “And said he’d kill, and kill and kill;/And so he will! And so he will!”(Stephens 5-6). Using personification of the wind as a violent and mentally disturbed man or psychopath Stephens portrays wind negatively. Contrary to Stephens depiction of Wing, Dickinson thinks of the wind as peaceful and calm: " No bone had he to bind him/ His speech was like the push/ Of numerous

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