Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well
And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
Stay.
That's what mothers say when their sons and daughters go away, they say stay.
My mother said go.
So I wasn't there the night she fell out of her wheelchair, so frustrated that she amputated her own legs, or rather tried to with a steak knife.
Her life leaking out on the white floor
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So we went.
And sent our regards on postcards from other places we'd been with stories about all the things we'd seen, that's how it was with you and I; why say good bye when we could still write.
But then it took your hands.
We should've practiced our goodbyes, because then it took your eyes. And I was somewhere, in the middle of nowhere watching the sun rise over a stop sign placed down the centre line of a highway filled with sudden turns for the worse.
Running back home 'cause I gotta play nurse.
Gotta figure out which pill alleviates which pain, which part of your brain is being used for a boxing bag as your body became a never ending game of freeze tag, taking place in an empty playground.
I was left looking for your limbs in a lost and found, and I couldn't set you free.
So we just sat there.
Our heads bent towards each other like flowers in the small hours of the morning, while light wandered in like a warning that time is passing and you right along with it,
Bit by bit every day.
And all I could say is if I could I would write you some way out of this, but my gift is useless. And you said no.
Write me a poem to make me
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Jessie slightly blushed. Irish was trying to push his buttons, and she had a genuine talent at it. "Facing me at firsts of course and then who knows where it would lead, but yeah, you would have your hands full." He teased her back not wanting to be the only one as excited as he teenage boy having his prom night at the playboy mansion.
Anse I stand next to the bed. I watch slowly as she weakens, approaching death and stepping on the porch of it’s house. She don’ look as pale as can be, I look into her soul to see the damage that has been done. The light I see in her eyes dims, barely shining matter a fact. Vardaman next to me.
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“Death, be not proud, though some have called thee” (Line 1), this personification is what the speaker greets Death with. The speaker pushes against Death, as if it was a real person and claims that it is not as powerful as it attempts to persuade others to believe. Death to the speaker is a weakling that has tricked others to believe that it holds the ending of one's life in its grasp. The speaker talks about how Death is an act of sleep that is one stepping stone closer to eternity, and a slave to the darkness that surrounds the world.
When you are six, you don’t worry about anything. You have your friends, your family, and that’s all you need to be happy. Your life is careless, like it should be when you are a child. However, it can change in one night. The next thing you know: your mom is packing in a hurry; she is crying, and when she notices you, rapidly puts on a big smile to make you feel safe and protected.
However, in contrast to Emily’s poem, the speaker undervalues death’s supremacy as its power is actually not in its own control. It is a contradictory to Emily’s poem. In line 9 "Thou’art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men" indicates death as a slave as it does what has been ordered from the superior ones. Death takes human’s life not because he is willing to do so but because he is forced to do so. In line 10-11, “And dost with poison, war and sickness… can make us sleep as well” the speaker associates death with poison, war and sickness as death is not the only factor of human’s deceases which then the speaker posts rhetorical question for death to stop being proud. Also, the usage of rhetorical questions like in line 2 “For thou art not so” makes death fragile. Further, the last line in this poem “And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die” points out that at the end, the only one who dies is death itself which will be discussed in the element of Christian theology in this essay. The ending also eventually argues that death is weak and vulnerable, not in control and that is the reason why human should not fear death. All the arguments made by the speaker in this poem creates death less powerful and less control of itself which illustrates a condescending tone to elucidate death’s incapability to kill.