If I Should Sleep with a Lady Called Death
If I Should Sleep with a Lady Called Death - meaning Summary
Love Versus Death Imagined
The speaker imagines his beloved lying with a figure called Death and tells her to seek a firmer lover while he remains apart. He watches their intimacy with a mix of wounded amusement and tenderness, responding not with grand gestures but with strange, humble gifts—worms, yearly offerings, and an "inch of nothing" for her soul. The poem balances jealousy, dark humor, and a resigned, oddly caring view of loss and desire.
Read Complete Analysesif I should sleep with a lady called death get another man with firmer lips ` to take your new mouth in his teeth (hips pumping pleasure into hips). Seeing how the limp huddling string of your smile over his body squirms kissingly, I will bring you every spring handfuls of little normal worms. Dress deftly your flesh in stupid stuffs, phrase the immense weapon of your hair. Understanding why his eye laughs, I will bring you every year something which is worth the whole, an inch of nothing for your soul.
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