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This poem is written entirely in a third-person point-of-view. The poem thus depicts the events that it describes with a high degree of distance. We are not explicitly shown what the speaker feels about the subject, leaving it open to the reader’s interpretation how they should feel about these events. The third-person perspective is also appropriate for a poem which takes as its subject the biography of a figure of importance. It mirrors a biographical or historical work more than it does a work of poetry or other fine art.

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