So Proud She Was to Die
So Proud She Was to Die - meaning Summary
Pride, Departure, and Alien Longing
The poem presents a speaker’s uneasy reaction to a loved one’s eager acceptance of death. The beloved’s calm, almost proud readiness to die shames those left behind, because what they treasured means little to her own desire. The mourners’ grief turns inward: their anguish is diminished and warped into jealousy that she meets death untroubled and moves beyond their sorrow, highlighting emotional distance at the moment of loss.
Read Complete AnalysesSo proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So satisfied to go Where none of us should be, Immediately, that anguish stooped Almost to jealousy.
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