Can someone explain to me the meaning of this quote ? 'some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same.

Even the insistent cough of the woman next to him wasn't enough to draw his eyes away from the tiny type of the ancient book its pages were brittle and felt like they could crumble at the slightest disturbance he noticed the musty odor if each page as he carefully it over.

Edgar allan poe's annabel lee should be considered rather then a literal

How does richard lovelace depict war in this excerpt from “to lucasta, going to the wars”?