In Spite of Everything
In Spite of Everything - meaning Summary
Affirming Intimacy Against Doom
The poem confronts mortality with a quiet, intimate act. The speaker acknowledges an inevitable Doom that will erase distinctions and 'smooth' minds, yet responds not with despair but tenderness. By pausing to kiss a pillow that held shared heads, the speaker affirms human closeness and memory against annihilation. The gesture is small but deliberate, a reclaiming of love and ordinary domestic intimacy in the face of universal erasure.
Read Complete Analysesin spite of everything which breathes and moves,since Doom (with white longest hands neatening each crease) will smooth entirely our minds -before leaving my room i turn,and(stooping through the morning)kiss this pillow,dear where our heads lived and were.
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