Read the passage from Part 1 of "To Build a Fire." This description allows readers to visualize
The Yukon lay a mile wide and hidden under three feet of
ice. On top of this ice were as many feet of snow. It was
all pure white, rolling in gentle undulations where the ice
jams of the freeze-up had formed. North and south, as
far as his eye could see, it was unbroken white, save for
a dark hairline that curved and twisted from around the
spruce-covered island to the south...
O the snow falling from the sky.
O the water churning beneath the ice.
O the frozen landscape surrounding the trail.
O the varied and challenging terrain of the trail.

In at least 150 words, discuss the comparison described in the figurative language and how the connotative language reinforces the symbol. certainly the utmost rim of my first dome was filled with the tumultuous impression of soldiers marching to death for freedom's sake, of pioneers streaming westward to establish self-government in yet another sovereign state. only the great dome of st. peter's itself has ever clutched my heart as did that modest curve which had sequestered from infinitude in a place small enough for my child's mind, the courage and endurance which i could not comprehend so long as it was lost in "the void of unresponsible space" under the vaulting sky itself.