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“(The photograph was taken
the day after I drowned.“

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At first glance, it may seem as though the speaker is describing a portrait of themself but the further the reader looks, it’s evident that their initial thought is not really the case. There are always hidden truths behind a photo.
Danielle

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The photograph shows the reader how malleability truth is through providing her point of view in reflection to the photograph. As if the story was told through the photograph point of view the audience could obtain, a hypothesize story to her death. She depicted her view to obtain her knowledge and how fast truth can be twisted.

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The photograph is to symbolize that there is hidden secret that many couldn’t find and that the photo misled the person of not seeing the body

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The photograph shows the malleability of truth because in the photo it shows the small frame house and a regular picture of the lake, but sighing the picture it has the dead body.

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The photograph symbolizes the malleability of truth by appearing like a peaceful nature scene, but really hiding a mysterious death. Furthermore, we know the speaker died because she implies it, but whoever took the photo may not know of her death and may not convey the photo with that information mind.

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The truth can always be twisted. Im addition, the poet try’s to make this seem like nothing is happening by saying there’s a lake and trees but in reality there is a deeper meaning.

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The photograph complicates the truth, leaving it obscured and to be determined by the viewer, no one could be sure of this person’s death at first glance and at a surface levels, their death isn’t even presented as a possibility until the speaker says “the photograph was taken the day after I drowned”

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The photograph symbolizes how truth can be misinterpreted or warped based solely on perspective.

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The photograph opens many possibilities of how they died but answers none of them, the photo could also be just of the environment making the hidden body in the lake an afterthought. If the speaker didn’t point out their body then the photo would seem to be just a nice lake picture hiding the dark truth that someone died there.

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The photograph seems to be serene, but upon examining it closely the ominous existence of a body is revealed; this shows how the initial apparent truth and the actual truth can differ, highlighting the importance of close examination and attention to details.

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The photograph shows how truth can be manipulated by leaving out or obscuring certain details that could change one’s perception of a certain topic.

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The phone shows us that behind every picture even if it’s a simple picture of a lake and a house there can always be a darker meaning behind it

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The photo graph shows many ways the person who drowned could’ve died and the steps leading up to it. It deforms the truth because there could be many truths in the picture hidden by assumptions.

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The photo seems like an ordinary image of a landscape at first, but when one digs deeper or investigates more closely, they see the truth. Whichever one sees is the truth to them, and that is why the photograph symbolizes how malleable truth really is.

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The photograph alters the truth by limiting its own depiction through blurry physical traits, showcasing that isn’t necessarily true.

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The photograph symbolizes the malleability of truth as fragile and weak. The photograph taken shows all surface level “truth” of the picture while the speakers knows the “real truth” beneath the lake.

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The truth can always be twisted by someone or something and you might not always get the full picture

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It speaks to how the frame of reference of a photo/situation can totally manipulate the actual reality of the situation. The truth is changed in this seemingly innocent photo because it’s a landscape type of photo, but we’re it to be in front of the drowned body, it would be a completely different perspective

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The photograph symbolizes the malleability of truth because it is smeared and blurry and hard to see, so you really have to look deeper to find the secret inside, or the truth, being that it’s a photograph of her after death

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The photograph reveals how hidden truth can be. Some who look at the photo described may have never seen her in the water. From differing perspectives, this may just be seen as a nice photo of a lake.

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The photograph shows that the truth is shaped by how one looks at it (their point of view) and how one decides to portray it

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I think it shows how truth can be distorted and twisted or used in different way

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The photograph shows up we never really know what the truth could be, we never know if something is happening right under our noses and it’s being hidden from us. It’s easy to overlook things if you don’t want to see them or complicate things.

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The light reflecting the water is a symbol that there is more to the truth that meets the eye. You have to look closer to get a clear and full picture of the truth.

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It’s a symbol of the truth behind the speakers death but leads the reader to guess what happened. Not everything can be seen in the picture

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The photograph tells us that the truth can always be hidden underneath what’s right in front of you. It also shows that there are many possibilities as to how the speaker died, showing how malleable truth can be.

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The photograph shows this by giving the example that  behind every pretty picture, there is some hidden dark truth beneath the surface.

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Looking at the photo as a first glance it’s a nice, beautiful, and seren image of lake and its surrounding, but the untold story of the deceased body at the bottom of the lake resembles the malleability of truth. Although no lies were told it doesn’t tell the full story and leaves that sense of ambiguity.

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It is showing us that often times a deeper darker meaning/item is other hidden in the good. We just have to look.

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The photograph shows that what you see on the surface isn’t necessarily the whole truth. Underneath the water, a dead person was hidden, which proves photos only show what people want to see.

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The photograph tells the audience how truth can be warped based on perspective. At the beginning the photograph symbolizes a nice but blurry scene, but upon further inspection, one can see that actual, covered truth.

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The fact that the speaker’s body is not easily visible and is obscured under a lake in the background shows how easy it is for important facts and details to be hidden away

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The photograph symbolizes that to find truth you may need to look further than what is presented right in front of you

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Truth can always be twisted or reinterpreted as something else entirely

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Regardless of how it may appear or what one thinks of it, the fact is that she very much so died in the lake. She seeks not to be forgotten despite there not being much evidence of such

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The effect of water on light is a distortion shows the beauty of the water giving you a false reality, while you might not be able to tell the narrators body is under the water, showing that not everything you see is true

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Because of the distortions, it causes it to be harder to see.

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Water reflects light and moving water can distort these reflections. Cameras require light to take photos so this water would distort the image, hiding the speakers body. This line adds to the mystery of their death and making it possible that the photographer doesn’t even know they are there which would mean that the speakers death was unnoticed and forgotten.

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The speaker emphasizes the difficulty of locating her body in the picture as the shining of the sun on the water further complicates this.
Danielle

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In this line it depicts the speakers feeling when drowning in the water, as she was hopeless and felt as distorted when in the water. As the light was something she has never notice before, and it was a contributing factor to no individual seeing her drown and saving her.

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This line helps add to the mystery around the speaker’s death and employs vivid imagery that allows the reader to picture the photograph better

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I believe the author connects the distorted light with her distorted feelings towards her own death

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The line is to serve the purpose of meaning that the narrator’s body couldn’t be found that the narrator’s death is a mystery to all

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I think the line “the effect of water on light is a distortion” serves as a reflection of the ripples, or mystery that surrounds and clouds the truth of the speaker’s death.

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The line is showing that because of the distortion it is hard to see the body under the surface.

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This line is strange because most would say that light effects water and not vice versa. But the author may have written it like this to draw more attention to the water, which is where the speaker’s body is.

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I think it means to show how you can’t see her but she’s there and kind of connects a scientific meaning to her emotions

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In a literal sense, it’s speaking to how light gets distorted when going through water and how objects get distorted with movement of water. In a figurative sense you could say how the situation could be unseen or misinterpreted because it is being distorted by time

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Light reflects off of the water, wrapping the body’s appearance.

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I believe this line is to be taken figuratively, with the meaning that the water could represent anything that distorts someone’s view or obscures their understanding

, while also showing that the speaker’s body is being physically obscured as well

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She means it is hard to see her body in lake, the water almost erasing her from existence and leaving her possibly forgotten.

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A main effect of this line is to separate the harsh and dramatic facts of the story to continue this almost monotone robotic voice of the speaker. It’s as if they don’t want to address their death maybe because they are embarrassed, so instead they keep trying to focus on other parts of the photo.

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the effect of water on light is a distortion, hiding what ever may be underneath the lake. the person who took the photo wether or not they are looking for her may miss her if not examined the photograph carefully

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The line means that the light makes it hard to see her in the water so it’s harder to see her or what she looks like

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Personally, I believe that the light being a distortion may symbolize the speaker’s feelings about their own death.

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The light bouncing of the water effects visibility in the photo. She then uses this aid the fact that you can’t really see the speaker in the water. Almost like an excuse.

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The function of this line is to characterize how the water distorts not only light, but life as well, and symbolizes how it blocks the truth.

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The way the light hits the water might be causing a distortion on the actual photo. It could be obscuring part of the image.

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The light reflecting into the water causes for the body of the speaker to be unnoticed or hard to notice in the photograph.

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To me this adds to the poem being a sort a puzzle. It makes her death more of a mystery.

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The line indicates that it is hard to determine if she is even a noticeable feature in this photo or a trick of the light made to confuse the reader

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In the photograph, the serene surface of the lake causes the depths of the lake to be more difficult to view by simply looking at the photo; one must put in effort to discern into the depths and find the body

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The narrator’s death is a mystery to everyone except the narrator.

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The light which reflects the water makes the speakers body hard to see but makes the lake beautiful.

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Water serves as a symbol of a blockade, or something in between, and it’s distortion shows that not everything you see is automatically the truth.

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The author is using imagery to describe the light reflecting off the water that makes it difficult to see her drowned body in the lake.

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They light bouncing off the water makes the dictaré distorted and hard to see.

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Connecting the distortion of light with her distorted feelings towards her own death

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To me the author includes this to further develop the theme of ambiguity surrounding the speakers death.

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“…but if you look long enough,
eventually
you will be able to see me”

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“It is difficult to say where
precisely, or to say
how large or small I am:”

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Blurred lines and grey flecks blended with the paper;

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“I am in the lake, in the center of the picture, just under the surface”

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“It is difficult to say where precisely, or to say how large or small I am:”

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“I am in the lake, in the center of the picture, just under the surface.”

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“It is difficult to say where precisely, or to say how large or small I am.”

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“It is difficult to say where, precisely, or to say how large or small I am: the effect of the water is a distortion” worries me because it implies her body may not be found and she may be left to forever decompose alone in a lake

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“(the photo was taken the day after I drowned.”

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“The photograph was taken the day after I drowned”

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“At first it seems to be a smeared print: blurred lines and grey flecks blended with the paper”

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“I am in the lake, in the center of the picture, just under the surface”

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The photograph was taken the day after I drowned

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“I am in the lake, in the center of the picture, just under the surface. “

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I am in the lake, in the center of the picture, just under the surface

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“(The photograph was taken the day after I drowned.”

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“And, to the right, halfway up what ought to be a gentle slope”

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I am in the lake, in the center of the picture, just under the surface.

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“At first it seems to be a smeared print: blurred lines and grey flecks blended with the paper;”

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The photograph was taken the day after i drowned

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(The photograph was taken
the day after I drowned.

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“I am in the lake, in the center of the picture, just under the surface.”

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“(The photograph was taken the day after I drowned…)”

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“….halfway up what ought to be a gentle slope….”

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“I am in the lake, in the center of the picture, just under the surface.”
Danielle

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It is difficult to say where precisely, or to say how large or small I am”

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“I am in the lake, in the center of the picture, just under the surface”

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The photograph was taken the day after I drowned.

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“what ought to be a gentle slope..”

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The photo was taken the day after I drowned.