Death Sets a Thing of Signigicant
Death Sets a Thing of Signigicant - meaning Summary
Value of Small Belongings
The poem argues that death transforms ordinary objects into charged mementos. Small domestic items and a friend’s marked book acquire sudden significance because they bear traces of a life now ended. These relics prompt the speaker to pause, remember, and be overcome by grief; practical acts like reading become impossible when memory and sorrow intrude. The speaker’s attention shifts from utility to commemoration, showing how loss invests mundane handiwork with emotional weight and renders familiar things unbearably precious.
Read Complete AnalysesDeath sets a thing significant The eye had hurried by, Except a perished creature Entreat us tenderly To ponder little workmanships In crayon or in wool, With ‘This was last her fingers did,’ Industrious until The thimble weighed too heavy, The stitches stopped themselves, And then ‘t was put among the dust Upon the closet shelves. A book I have, a friend gave, Whose pencil, here and there, Had notched the place that pleased him,– At rest his fingers are. Now, when I read, I read not, For interrupting tears Obliterate the etchings Too costly for repairs.
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