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The poem is written in second-person plural to emphasize the physical presence and the shared emotions of the witnesses at a death-bed. The past tense shows that the experience has been completed and its details have been intensely remembered. That the night of death is common indicates both ...
Just as a restful night of sleep brings pleasure, so should death. The speaker implies that sleep is simply a small glimpse of death. Thus, there is nothing to fear in death, for death will bring something like a pleasurable sleep.
Herbert does not say. Cannot say, in fact. No one can. Does the silence after the final line signify emptiness (nothing at all), or absolute wholeness (God all in all)? Your answer will shape your religious practice. Our second poem, “Life,” surprises us when we discover it’s real...
One of the main focuses of the poem is the consequences of the father's suicide. For his widowed wife there is nothing left but anger at the loss, which drives her to erase his memory. But for the speaker there's a void left behind they try to fill despite their mother's refusal ...
Death, in this poem, is both ordinary and eerie—and perhaps it’s all the more eerie because it’s so ordinary. As the poem’s speaker watches the people in the house across the road deal with the aftermath of a death, he’s able to predict all the rituals that are about to take...
The author wrote this poem to help her come to terms with the death of her mother to dementia. It beautifully expresses the connection that she continues to feel with her mother and how it is expressed through the natural and celestial world. ...
At last, she says, “Heaven’s King/ Keeps register of everything,/ And nothing may we use in vain.” In this way, the girl in the poem shows her true Christian spirit and counts on the Almighty to do justice with her and her beloved fawn. Lines 16–24 Ev’n beasts must be ...
while all the rest of us on earth were born into a lower position and such a thing is all down to who you are and where you come from and the luck of the draw and there is nothing you can do about it but take it back off them, because a fish cannot become a bird but there ...