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The Moonlight Diction

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In this poem, the author illustrates how the light on a subject can change its mood and meaning to us. But also how the situation creates the mood of the light. She does this by experimenting with the words she uses to describe each scene. With the words she chooses there is also an accompanying pre-determined meaning we give to the words. She tries to convey to us that when we perceive something, we are responsible for how we perceive it. And that as our thoughts on a subject change it affects how we see it, but also how we perceive the way other things interact with it. In this case, the moonlight “changing” when different subjects are focused on. I’m not sure how I didn’t realize it earlier, but I just noticed that the Bowie

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