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an over-exaggeration obviously made.

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What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow:
What are brief? today and tomorrow:
What are frail? spring blossoms and youth:
What are deep? the ocean and truth.
 
(Christina Rossetti, The Children's Classic Poetry Collection, page 53)

        I chose this poem due to it's reference of sea-sand and sorrow being heay. Sea-sand may become heavy if it is being loaded into a dump truck, however a handful will not weigh you down. Sorrow is a different aspect all together. It is not heavy it merely becomes a burden or emotionally testing.