Luckily, both E.B. White author of Once More to the Lake and poet Billy Collins of “Forgetfulness” are able to do such. The diction Mr. Collins used set a sorrowful theme of how as time moves on our memories move on and disappear from our minds. The syntax he used made it feel as though the words flowed through the reader which allows them to understand his poem better. E.B. White’s diction set a tone of serenity and majesty which helped him to show the readers how memories from long ago can be brought back up with simple triggers. Such triggers as a smell or sound like smelling the pine from his cabin on the lake allowed him to remember doing so as a child. Both writers explore a similar theme of what happens to memories as time moves on but their opinions differ on what that
Luckily, both E.B. White author of Once More to the Lake and poet Billy Collins of “Forgetfulness” are able to do such. The diction Mr. Collins used set a sorrowful theme of how as time moves on our memories move on and disappear from our minds. The syntax he used made it feel as though the words flowed through the reader which allows them to understand his poem better. E.B. White’s diction set a tone of serenity and majesty which helped him to show the readers how memories from long ago can be brought back up with simple triggers. Such triggers as a smell or sound like smelling the pine from his cabin on the lake allowed him to remember doing so as a child. Both writers explore a similar theme of what happens to memories as time moves on but their opinions differ on what that