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Life means all that it ever was There is absolute unbroken continuity What is death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind Because I am out of sight? I am waiting for you for an interval Somewhere very near Just around the corner All is well. Nothing is past; nothing...
311. “Death is nothing at all; it does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room.” Henry Scott Holland 312. “Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.”—Bertolt Brecht 313. “Death be not proud thou some have called thee. Mighty and dreadful for th...
Furthermore, Death cannot do its dirty work independently and must rely on the meagre means of disease, poison, and conflict. Through the narrator, the poet aims to express that Death can, at all costs, be postponed by taking precautions. Death, however, cannot select the time to reflect ...
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A French poet once said‚ “All changes‚ even the most longed for‚ have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another (Anatole France).” What does this mean though? I believe it means that change is...
Furthermore, the sonnet proclaims death is nothing more than a bridge that will collapse after we pass, in the sense that death dies and leads to an eternal life. The speaker of the poem gives the impression of a confident, religious, middle-aged, fearless, outgoing man who refuses to ...
Death by itself is a very descriptive and powerful word. To everyone it means something different, but the basic understanding of the word is the permanent end of all functions of life of an organism. This essay will express the different attitudes and treatment of death as a subject. The ...
says in another poem, “Employment (II).” And even should the world’s last embers cool and turn to dust, the soul which belongs to God will “chiefly” live. “Chiefly” means particularly, or mostly, but it may also reference Christ, the Chief of history, in whom all are made ...