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Next Section Quotes Previous Section Glossary How To Cite in MLA Format Barbour, Polly. Will review the submission and either publish your submission or provide feedback. You can help us out by revising, improving and updatingĪfter you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. Instead of missing her, she wants her loved one to look for signs of her, knowing that this will make the grieving process easier. As it turns out, it only has 12, and therefore is not a true sonnet, but has other qualities that a true sonnet would have. Note: I realize that I wrote this post with the belief that the poem above had 14 lines. GriefĪnother of the poem's themes is grief the narrator knows that the loved one she has left is grieving deeply for her, and in some ways is trying to change the nature of her grief. So there you have it - my chosen sonnet - 'Do Not Stand at my Grave and Weep'. The poem is putting forward the suggestion that death is not the end, it is merely a changing of state and that there our other realms of our existence that the living can still connect with.
She is not going to be lying in a box under the ground, but rather, her soul will be part of the next life and also become a part of the natural world. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.Īlthough this poem is often considered to be a "death poem", in actuality it is more of a "life after death" poem the narrator, speaking to a loved one still living, is trying to explain the nature of death and what comes after. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.