No, I don't think it is a rhetorical device
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Both W. H. Auden and William Carlos Williams wrote ekphrastic poems about Pieter Brueghel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. Both poems point out that Icarus’s drowning is ignored or goes unnoticed. Williams's poem uses short groups of three lines and an objective tone. Auden's poem uses longer lines and more description, and it refers to ideas and images outside of the painting. Williams provides a matter-of-fact account of what happens in the painting, while Auden connects the painting to the overall idea of suffering.
Explanation:
Answer: no because everyone would act the same and nobody would be special. the world would be more sad because we each have something that makes up special and different from eachother, and if that was taken away we would all be the same and we wouldn’t be as intriguing to eachother.
Explanation:
The tone of the “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is that of: horror and awe