1) I would say the Collins was suttle in the way his poem seemed self important. He used a lot of different ideas for places where he saw the names, which were in order from A to Z which showed that the names running through his head were somehow compulsive and organized consciously or sub consiously. I felt that Collins was a bit overwritten in the sense that he took you through the whole alphabet, a whole town and countryside, and then went extreme Pathos on us.
2) I think Collins' use of diction was appropriate for the subject. For me, it seems he has some sort of post traumatic stress and can't help but think of names in sequence of the letters of the alphabet. He explained depression through his words like "there is barely room on the walls of the heart". Collins seemed dark and mysterious, using words like "cried out" and "thick tangle where letters are hidden." By the end of the poem, I almost felt sorry for this fellow.
