What causes Alfonso and Ernie to argue in “Broken Chain”?

the narrator closes the lantern tightly so the old man is

not awakened by the bright light

explanation:

they fear for their lives

edmund spenser and john bunyan also influenced hawthorne. : )

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the difference of the poems of walt whitman and emily dickinson is that whitman uses personification, whereas dickinson avoids figurative language. whitman incorporates transcendentalism and realism in his works. on the other hand, dickinson's poems talks about death and immortality.