Poem Analysis: Lost Brother By Stanley Moss

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Lost Brother
“Lost Brother” by Stanley Moss is a poem dedicated to a fallen brethren, an ancient tree that had lived a long, noble life. As bizarre as it may seem to mourn a felled tree, the speaker wants the reader to share in his sorrow through extended metaphor and personification to prove that the tree was full of humanity undeserving of its untimely fate and whose life should serve as an example to others.
The brother he lost had been taken from him in such a violent manner since he was cut down at the ripe age of 4,862. However, the real reason why the speaker is in pain is because how much alike they were and shared a unique bond since the speaker states “I know we had the same mother”(Line 5). The tree was the brother he never got to

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