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Essay Archive - The Theme of Death in Poems
The Theme of Death in Poems
Death is a common theme in many poems. It is viewed so differently
to everyone. In the poems, "Because I could not stop for Death," "First
Death in Nova Scotia," and "War is kind" death is presented by each
narrator as something different. To one it is a kind gentle stranger
while to another it is a cold cruel being.
A kind gentleman stranger personifies death in, "Because I could
not stop for Death." The narrator of the poem is a busy person, with little
time, and definitely no time to die. Her carriage driver, which is death,
arrives....
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