Said Death to Passion
Said Death to Passion - meaning Summary
Death Meets Passion's Refusal
The poem stages a brief, emblematic encounter between Death and Passion as if they were persons negotiating territory. Passion refuses Death’s request for an "acre," asserting resistance. Death nevertheless removes Passion’s eastern domain and reestablishes sovereignty in the west, likened to the sun. The short narrative compresses a shift in power and the cessation of argument, suggesting inevitable change and the finality of death confronting desire.
Read Complete AnalysesSaid Death to Passion ‘Give of thine an Acre unto me.’ Said Passion, through contracting Breaths ‘A Thousand Times Thee Nay.’ Bore Death from Passion All His East He – sovereign as the Sun Resituated in the West And the Debate was done.
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