Nor dread nor hope attend
A dying animal;
A man awaits his end
Dreading and hoping all;
Many times he died,
Many times rose again,
A great man in his pride
Confronting murderous men
Casts derision upon
Supersession of breath;
He knows death to the bone –
Man has created death.
A dying animal;
A man awaits his end
Dreading and hoping all;
Many times he died,
Many times rose again,
A great man in his pride
Confronting murderous men
Casts derision upon
Supersession of breath;
He knows death to the bone –
Man has created death.
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W B Yeats was contemporary of Rabindranath Tagore.
Tagore became the first non European to win the Nobel Prize in 1913.
Yeats won the Nobel Prize in 1923.
Meaning to Death by W B Yeats
When an animal dies it neither has fear nor any hope.
While a man dies fearing (death perhaps) or hoping(coming back alive).
This way a man dies many times. Lives many times.
A man of great pride (the worst sin) makes a mockery of death even when he faces murderous men.
For he knows man creates death. i.e the cause of his death is others.
I found the sentence "Man has created death". I thought Yamaraj does that.
I should not have written the worst sin. Error is deeply regretted.
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