Orchestra


 * Orchestra**

Orchestration is at work in the final stanza of the poem, where the word "Fellow" returns for the first time since being introduced in the opening line. **Here, however, it is not the**


 * locomotion of the snake that is orchestrated but the "clos[ing]" up--the "wrinkl[ing]**," if you will--of the poet herself, along with the "tighter breathing" that attends that cold

contraction at the **bone**. And then, in the poem's final fine, the **"Fellow" makes its last appearance but this time covertly. It stands upright in the printed version in the**


 * snakelike initial letter (visually, a reversed S**) of **the word "Zero." In the manuscript, the graphic effect is even more unmistakable, for the snakelike appearance of the Z**


 * is itself mirror-imaged by the (diminished) letter that follows it** (Monteiro 1)**.**

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