Euphemisms remove passion, thought, and precaution to the topic in which they are associated with and are often used to avoid addressing things for how they truly are. Politicians and others who like to make less of important issues often employ this strategy to tranquilize their audience, along with trying to avoid controversy. By taking a mild approach towards a subject, key issues are “lost in translation.” For example, when Nye dismisses the concept that a bullet can be “stray,” and rejects all of the qualities that are associated with the word, she asserts that an object with such power cannot be dismissed with such a euphemism. Through her poems, Nye successfully inspires the audience to be aware of when it is appropriate to use euphemisms,
