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In “Death of a Toad” by Richard Wilbur, formal elements are used to help convey the speaker’s attitude toward the death of a toad. Structure, syntax, diction and imagery are used to reveal the speakers feelings. The poem essentially talks about the silent death of the frog. How the frog gets injured by a machine of man and dies unnoticed. The toad’s death also symbolizes nature in a whole. Since like the toad, nature is being hurt by human kind and is not noticed. The choice of words in the first stanza has a special meaning. “A toad the power mower ca