Friday, June 21, 2013

Give the summary of the poem "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire,of a Child in London".

In my opinion, this poem is about the poet's attitudes
towards death.  He rejects the way that people usually think about death.  To him, death
is just a natural process, one in which the person goes back and becomes one with
nature.


You can see this, for example, in the second
stanza.  There, the poet is saying that he will not really acknowledge the child's death
until he, too, is dead.  But look at how he characterizes death there.  He says that, in
death, he will "enter again" the round bead of water and the ear of corn.  He is saying
that he has come from natural things (water and grain) and will be going back
there.


In other words, death is a return to nature and he
will not presume to mourn the child's death because it is just part of a natural cycle. 
Through the rest of the poem, the poet restates this theme in various
ways.

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