Answer these questions to explore how Szymborska creates the tone of the poem. Cite words and phrases from the poem to support your answers: a.) Does the speaker use formal or informal
language? What is the effect of the choice? b.) What is the speaker's attitude toward the situation he
or she is describing? c.) How does the tone of the poem change beginning with Line 30?

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.