Cause and Effect
Cause and Effect - meaning Summary
Escape and Incomprehension
The poem presents a terse observation about suicide and the gap between those who take their own lives and those who survive them. It suggests that some people end their lives as an act of escape from unbearable circumstances or relationships, while the bereaved remain baffled, unable to imagine why anyone would need to leave them. The lines contrast inward struggle with outward incomprehension in spare, direct language.
Read Complete AnalysesThe best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them.
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