The Litany
What metaphors are used in The Litany by Dana Gioia?
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This wasteland, with its dusty roads and vacant rooms and silt settling "indifferently" on the objects in the rooms, becomes a metaphorical backdrop for the scripture that the speaker quotes: "Dust thou art, to dust thou shalt return."