William Blake also ties together Death and Intelligence. Is a human being’s death more significant because of its conscience intelligence and is the ignorance of an animal like the fly truly bliss? The relationship between the narrator and the fly starts out separate in the beginning of the poem, but ends in comparison. As if in the end, our lives are all simply equal in this world. “The Fox” by Kenneth Patchen explores the idea of Death through the story of a pregnant fox that is shot by a hunter.
Throughout the poem, the speaker discusses things about nature and death that gives off a depressing or gloomy mood to the poem. The speaker begins to set the mood and says, “Her early leaf’s a flower./But only so an hour (3-4). Frost’s poem is in no way a happy poem. It has a strong message but it leaves people feeling depressed and fearing death. Making the mood of the poem depressing, Frost is able to get his point across that eventually everything will die.
During the experience, their attention shifts from the thought of dying to the buzz of a common fly (“I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died—”140-141). It is clear that Dickinson used her creative imagination to create an odd twist to the story of death. Romanticism was about using one’s imagination rather than being literal and scientific. The reason Dickinson used a fly, nobody knows, but the irony in the symbol is very strange. Flies, as most people know, are an annoyance.
The main theme in "Dulce et Decorum est" is that it is not a glorious thing to fight for one's country; it is actually a horrific and traumatizing experience. This is ironic because the name of the poem translates to "it is a glorious and honorable thing to fight for one's country." Owen has done this so that he can lead up to the last line where he is urging people back at home to cease telling their children the "old lie." Stanza three is about tragedy of war, calling it "Obscene as cancer." This is a useful simile because it is something that people reading the poetry could relate to.
Collins has a strong sense of reality about death in how it is not always fair. In the poem entitled “On The Death Of A Next-Door Neighbor,” Collins explains death through the use of personification, “If only death had consulted his cracked leather map, / then bent to wipe the fog / from the windshield with an empty sleeve” (71). Collins personifies death by giving it human actions and need of assistance, but having no body, to show that it is only with us in spirit. This poem portrays death by showing that it is not to be feared, but rather accepted, because it is in everyone’s future. Making death into a person is a creative technique because it makes it so real.
Emily Dickinson and the use of death as symbolism One of the best ways to portray a feeling or expression is by using symbolism, which most poetry does a good job of, however, there are few better than poetry by Emily Dickinson. The poems written by her are abstract enough where she could be talking about death and she is really talking about how she barely left her home town of Amherst, Massachusetts. She also uses symbolism to show the internal struggle of some things, such as losing your mind, symbolizing the felling of emptiness and loneness. “Because of I could not stop Death” is one poem that has the feeling that she is not saying what she means. The overall theme in the poem of death is actually another form of symbolism.
It portrays the poet's jealousy of the death Woman because she died peacefully while others has to live and face the ordeals of life. Her preoccupation with death is seen when she states that her jealousy for the death Woman is “nearly infinite”. The next stanza talks about how the Woman passed away without much trouble. It took place in a short time and the whole experience “Jostled “her. This had a disturbing influence on the poet.
Her poems on death, though, almost go beyond time. Dickinson’s two poems, “Because I could not stop for Death-“and “I heard a Fly buzz-when I died-”, are both about one of mankind’s biggest fears, death. The thought of death terrifies us. It is almost as if death is lurking right around the corner to jump out and get you like Michael Myers does in the movie Halloween. It is a negative event in life and something to be dreaded, mainly because it is an unknown.
In giving death characteristics of being mortal it diminishes the effect of fear that death is associated with. Donne then goes on to personify death, giving the entity human characteristics, in line two, “Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so” and line nine, “Thou’rt slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men”, these characteristics make death appear defenseless and less fearsome. Throughout the poem metaphors are also present, he frequently compares sleep to death, and “From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, much pleasure, then from thee much more must flow” lines 5-6. The metaphor suggests that since we derive pleasure from sleep, death should be more pleasurable. Also by referring to line five the “pictures” of death, is implied that sleep is just a short resemblance of death, making death seem effortless and comprehensible, removing the fear of the unknown.
Instead she is off being amused by careless things. Perhaps it wasn’t love that made him kill her but the embarrassment that she made him go through. The Murderer ties in with My Last Duchess in the same way because although this poem is very short, it is right to the point. Stevie Smith talks about how his love is taking her last breath and how she wasn’t like most girls which is why they had an accident. There is so many interpretations for this poem.