Indeed, this second forms the basis of the content of this poem, with Emily extending the idea of pathetic fallacy with phrases such as If a shadow Quench his rays and linking it with the mythical ideas of Apollo, proclaiming that the future can be told through the weather.
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The album's sixth track, " Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer than They Are " is a three part narrative that uses pathetic fallacy, where the seasons ( summer, winter and spring ) reflect the atmosphere of the events being described, drawing " its inspiration from the singer's often-tragic childhood.
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For example, the novel adverts to a spate of women jumping from tall buildings, but the fatal consequences of these leaps never seem to eventuate; Mount Esja is undergoing a volcanic eruption for almost the whole of the novel, ceasing at the end in a moment of pathetic fallacy; and ninety-three million refugees arrive, without explanation, in Iceland.
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At the heart of Seth's analysis was a defence of the necessity of anthropomorphism, John Ruskin's " pathetic fallacy . " " We are anthropomorphic, " he affirmed, " and necessarily so, to the inmost fibre of our thinking . " He continues : " Every category . . . every description of existence or relation, is necessarily a transcript from our own nature and our own experience.
