What Is The Mood Of The Poem Dog's Death By John Updike

John Updike was born on March 18, 1932, in Reading, Pennsylvania. His mother, herself an aspiring writer, encouraged him to write and draw. For the first three summers after high school, he worked as a copy boy, eventually producing a number of feature stories for the paper. He then received a tuition scholarship to Harvard University, where he majored in english. He was married and had three children. His best work was his “Rabbit In Rich,” for which he received many awards. The poem “Dog’s Death,” by John Updike, takes the reader through the emotions of the love and loss of the family’s dog. Updike uses tone and diction to make you emotionally attached to what the family is experiencing. Investigation of the elements used by Updike allows

The author uses diction to emotionally attach someone to what is going on. The word choice the author uses really brings out an easier way to comprehend what is going on without actually saying it. By using ‘lie down’ in this form, the reader knows that the dog is inevitably going to die because that is a dog command we use to get dog’s to rest. Also, by saying the heart is going to lie down forever, we are also able to understand that she is slowly dying. The final four lines bring such power to what the author is trying to inform the reader on. To know that, even though the dog was deathly sick, she was still able to get to the newspaper to play. A dog will never let their loyalty to their owners down, even when it comes to circumstances, such as death. Not only by word choice but also, one can even visualize this loyalty through the vivid

In the first line again, when the car hit her, readers can hear the car as it brushed over the dog and the whimpering as she was walking back home. Another thing that one can hear is, “Good Dog! Good Dog!” (572.) The audience can vividly hear the narrator and his family saying “good dog” with joy and hear the dog barking with happiness. When the family is playing with the dog one can hear the dog’s short struggled breaths, but hear her happy whimpers, because she is loyal to her family. Also, when it says, “Monday morning, as the children were nosily fed” (Pg. 572.) someone can hear the busy morning, the clang of dishes, the hurried talk, and the rushing out the door. Finally, when it mentions the narrator’s wife crying one can hear the gasping for air and the sobs coming from the