He Fought Like Those Who’ve Nought to Lose
poem 759
He Fought Like Those Who’ve Nought to Lose - meaning Summary
Bravery Without Self-preservation
The poem depicts a man who fights with reckless abandon as if he has nothing left to lose. He seems to court death deliberately, yet death eludes him while others fall. The speaker presents a paradox: his willingness to die isolates him and results in survival, which becomes a kind of living doom. The tone is concise and ironic, focusing on the consequences of self-neglect and fatal bravado.
Read Complete AnalysesHe fought like those Who’ve nought to lose Bestowed Himself to Balls As One who for a further Life Had not a further Use Invited Death with bold attempt But Death was Coy of Him As Other Men, were Coy of Death To Him to live was Doom His Comrades, shifted like the Flakes When Gusts reverse the Snow But He was left alive Because Of Greediness to die
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