In "Ethics," a poem by Linda Pastan, the speaker talks about a moral question that her Ethics teacher asked her every fall, and which has remained in her thoughts for a long time. The question was "if there was a fire in a museum / what would you save, a Rembrandt painting / or an old woman who doesn't have many / years left anyway?" (3-6). and the speaker tells us that ethics and moral values ​​can only be learned from the reflection that comes from experience and maturity. The speaker uses some literary elements to support her theme which are: diction, figures of speech, and imagery. The author develops her theme through her choice of words. For example, words such as “drafty,” “thoughtlessly,” and “half-imagined” give insight into how weakly the dilemma was perceived by children, supporting the idea that children fail to understand the speaker's problem. Furthermore, when the speaker refers to Rembrandt simply as a "picture" and the woman as "old age", we can see that these two symbols are considered trivial by the children, even though they are very important to both the speaker and the child . P...