The first line of the second stanza of Robert Lowell’s poem, “For the Union Dead,” reads: “Once my nose crawled like a snail on
the glass.” This is an example of _____. simile to suggest the speaker’s excitement at seeing the fish
conceit to set the tone of sadness throughout the rest of the poem
hyperbole to express the intensity of the speaker’s memory
metaphor to compare the window to a slowly moving snail
