The dog
In the poem entitled "The Dog and his Master," the narrator talks about a faithful dog that would do anything to protect its master from every type of danger. The dog here is used as a symbol for the devotion with witch many servant treated their masters and also to suggest that the servants loved their masters and did not saw their service as a burden but rather as an opportunity to show their loyalty.
Symbol for danger
In the poem "The Dog and his Master," the narrator presents the nighttime as being a dangerous time when those who wanted to steal and do harm could do so without risking being caught. Because of this, the term night is used in this poem as a symbol for danger and to suggest the time when crimes are more likely to happen.
Symbol for intuition
In the poem "A Dog and his Master," the narrator mentions his sense that allows him to know which people want to profit from his master and steal from him. The term sense is used here as a symbol for the intuition the dog possessed that allowed him to know which people posed a possible threat to his master.
Symbol for sexuality
In the poem "Adam Posed," the narrator mentions the first woman and how she had a great influence on the first man. She is called a nymph in the poem thus signaling the sexuality she had and the way her sexuality influenced Adam. The first woman is thus used here as a symbol to suggest the negative sexuality many women possess.
Symbol for temptation
In the poem entitled "Adam Posed," the narrator mentions how Adam had to clear away the thorns in his path every day. Soon after mentioning this, the narrator mentions how then the first woman appeared and how she seduced the first man. Thus, the thorns here are used as a symbol for the temptation posed by the first woman and how Adam became unwilling get rid of them after the first woman appeared in his life, thus signaling how he was no longer interested in getting rid of them.
Symbol for disease
In the poem entitled "To Death," the narrator talks about darts thrown by Death towards unsuspecting people. The darts are used here as a symbol for the many illness that affect us and the illness that appear at times to have been thrown at us from nowhere by someone ill intended.
