Sunday, June 9, 2019

Death by W B Yeats

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.

3 comments:

  1. 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.

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  2. 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.

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  3. 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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