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Read the excerpt from act ii of hamlet.i have of late,but wherefore i know not,lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave oerhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.what is the effect of hamlets use of metaphors in this excerpt?