In This World of Ours
death
somber
In This World of Ours - meaning Summary
Daily Routines, Stark Mortality
In this short poem Basho reduces human life to routine biological acts—eating, sleeping, waking—and a single inevitable end. It presents existence as circular and pragmatically purposeless, highlighting transience and mortality without melodrama. The plain diction and blunt conclusion emphasize acceptance rather than protest, inviting readers to see daily actions as both ordinary obligations and reminders that life culminates in death.
Read Complete AnalysesIn this world of ours, We eat only to cast out, Sleep only to wake, And what comes after all that Is simply to die at last.
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