Who’s Most Afraid of Death?thou
Who’s Most Afraid of Death?thou - meaning Summary
Facing Death Through Love
The speaker addresses a beloved and asks who fears death more, then answers by admitting both fear and fierce love. Rather than abstract dread, the poem imagines being present at the beloved’s end—witnessing fragility, holding close, and preferring intimate company over isolation. Physical and emotional union—leaning mouths and bodies together—becomes a way to meet mortality, blending tenderness, acceptance, and erotic urgency as antidotes to fear.
Read Complete Analyseswho’s most afraid of death?thou art of him utterly afraid,i love of thee (beloved)this and truly i would be near when his scythe takes crisply the whim of thy smoothness. and mark the fainting murdered petals. with caving stem. But of all most would i be one of them round the hurt heart which do so frailly cling….) i who am but imperfect in my fear Or with thy mind against my mind,to hear nearing our hearts’ irrevocable play— through the mysterious high futile day an enormous stride (and drawing thy mouth toward my mouth,steer our lost bodies carefully downward.
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