When I die Give what's left of me away To children And old men that wait to die. And if you need to cry, Cry for your brother Walking the street beside you. And when you need me, Put your arms Around anyone And give them
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He longer must - than I - For I have but the power to kill, Without - the power to die - Dickinson’s paradoxical final quatrain is generally read as suggesting loss and tragedy, but it’s also possible to read wry humor and wit in these lines. Up until this quatrain, we’ve enjoy...
When I hoped, I recollect Just the place I stood— At a Window facing West Roughest Air — was good — Not a Sleet could bite me — In which the Sleet is construed to be something like a biting animal. This implied metaphor reminds me of Shakespeare’s Hamlet: HAMLET The air bites...
And I die…Don’t cry If bike, boat, boots or board was a part of the stopping of my heart When I Die… Don’t Cry Take comfort that I was in my happy place and would’ve chosen no other time and space So I died? Don’t Cry!
When asked by Donald Hall in his Paris Review interview whether Kreymborg did all he could to promote me. Miss Monroe and the Aldingtons had asked me simultaneously to contribute to Poetry and The Egotist in 1915. Alfred Kreymborg was not inhibited. I was a little different from the others....
Another famous line iambically conjures up the image of the speaker opening up their hand to reveal dust: 'I will show you fear in a handful of dust.' Not only are humans reduced to dust when they die and decay, but dust is also used in the burial service, related to Ecclesiastes 3...
The first is when the person dies. Second is when that person is buried or cremated. Third is when that person is forgotten. I will never forget Wayne, Lil Tony, or my father. They live inside of me every day. I carry them with me every day. I also grieve every day. It's what...
Don't give up hoping when the ship goes down; Grab a spar or something, just refuse to drown. Don't think you're dying just because you're hit; Smile in face of danger and hang on to your Grit. Folks die too easy, they sort o' fade away; ...
And I'll return England's gentleness, which lives in the English minds that are at peace under the English sky (the English heaven where I will be at peace too when I die). “The Soldier” Themes War, Patriotism, and Nationhood “The Soldier” explores the bond between a patriotic Briti...