An almost barren area left contained within a palace of ever-growing, watchful giants. Lying alone visited seldom, becoming a mystery, a cell, or even a shrine to those who know of its existence. Feelings abound hidden in the secluded section of the forest. They range from love to hate, desire to abandonment, sorrow to joy all caused by what dwells there...no, but what is no longer here. Here, being with us the living, for the ground is where they now lay. Not to be seen or touched by that of the human hand, just to be remembered by a statue or plaque. This is a picture of graveyard that lies atop a mountain, and is the basis for a poem written by Robert Morgan.

In picturing, a graveyard many of us view it as open and on a nicely trimmed field, with few trees to allow the sunlight to shine through to be seen and not clogge

Robert Morris uses the emotional variance of his readers to help portray the image of a mountainous graveyard throughout the poem entitled "Mountain Graveyard" with the great emphasis placed on his middle diction of word choices. His word alternations were selective for they are all anagrams. Some examples would be: "slate tales"(686), "hated death" (686). These words are simple in meaning, but the connotations that could be associated with them provide the reader with a greater depth of the portrayal that the author may have been trying to reach. A word with minor complexity, heart, meaning in relative definition an organ of the human body designed to pump blood. When transposed as done by Morris it provides several other levels of implications such as fragile, love, desire, loneness, and life. All of which vary within the scale of emotional range of the reader from negatives to positives.

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Approximate Word count = 610
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)