The Death of a Toad Style Analysis Richard Wilbur, the speaker in this poem, uses a stream of structure, syntax, diction, and imagery characterized by a patchwork of present thoughts, feelings, and sensory perceptions to reveal rather vividly a horrific scene of death. It is rather simple to gain a sense of the attitudes he has of the death of the toad by piecing together the random details of all the things that actually occurs …showed first 75 words of 635 total…

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