Excerpt from a woman who went to alaska
may kellogg sullivan

5naturally, my traveling companions interested me exceedingly. there were few women. two ladies with their husbands were going to dawson on business. about eight or ten other women belonging to the rapid class of individuals journeyed at the same time. we had all nationalities and classes. there were two women from europe with luggage covered with foreign stickers, and a spoken jargon which was neither german nor french, but sounded like a clever admixture of both.

6then there was the woman who went by the name of mrs. somebody or other who wore a seal-skin coat, diamond earrings and silver-mounted umbrella. she had been placed in the same stateroom with me on the steamer at seattle, and upon making her preparations to retire for the night had offered me a glass of brandy, while imbibing one herself, which i energetically, though politely, refused. at midnight a second woman of the same caste had been ushered into my room to occupy the third and last berth, whereupon next morning i had waited upon the purser of the ship, and modestly but firmly requested a change of locationbased on the passage, which most likely explains why the narrator requested a change of rooms?

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Which two passages in this excerpt from the death of ivan illych does leo tolstoy use to suggest that ivan ilych feels like his life is slipping away from him? "what's the use? it makes no difference," he said to himself, staring with wide-open eyes into the darkness. "death. yes, death. and none of them knows or wishes to know it, and they have no pity for me. now they are playing." (he heard through the door the distant sound of a song and its accompaniment.) "it's all the same to them, but they will die too! fools! i first, and they later, but it will be the same for them. and now they are merry . . the beasts! " anger choked him and he was agonizingly, unbearably miserable. "it is impossible that all men have been doomed to suffer this awful horror! " he raised himself. "something must be wrong. i must calm myself—must think it all over from the beginning." and he again began thinking. "yes, the beginning of my illness: i knocked my side, but i was still quite well that day and the next. it hurt a little, then rather more. i saw the doctors, then followed despondency and anguish, more doctors, and i drew nearer to the abyss. my strength grew less and i kept coming nearer and nearer, and now i have wasted away and there is no light in my eyes.

In at least one hundred words, describe how bly uses sarcasm in his poetry to evince an emotional reaction from his readers. how is this emotional reaction strengthened by bly’s ironic language and imagery?