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First Death in Nova Scotia by Elizabeth Bishop - Poem Analysis
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The third line of the piece describes chromographs, beneath which Arthur is laid. Chromographs are colored prints, and in this case they are of royalty. The next three lines mention the names of important British Royalty that are looking down from their portraits, the speaker describes this table as
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  • The third line of the piece describes chromographs, beneath which Arthur is laid. Chromographs are colored prints, and in this case they are of royalty. The next three lines mention the names of important British Royalty that are looking down from their portraits,
  • the speaker describes this table as being like a frozen lake, she has given the loon a bit of it’s native environment back.
  • more at home sitting on top of the “marble-topped table.”
  • The top of the coffin, most likely covered in some kind of material similar to the table on which the loon stands, resembles the frozen lake mentioned earlier in the poem closely.

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