(A) Shu Ting compares time, trees and stars to an assembly line in the poem of the same name.
(B) The comparison of nature to an assembly line helps to create the mood of sadness and gloom. Her comparison also shows the audience how nature is dull just like the poets emotions.
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(A) Shu Tin’s interpretation of Bei Doa’s poem is said to be bleak, gloomy or pessimistic.
(B) It seems that the author is making a reference to nature again and how the roots of the positive future to come had been planted just a day ago.
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She may have exchanged these words to emphasize how an individual's emotions and feelings, when compared to something very large are larger than that of the object.
“The heart may be tiny but the world's enormous. “
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