Maya Angelou

Is Love

Is Love - meaning Summary

Birth, Death, and Love

The poem compresses life’s major phases—birth, living, death—into striking images (midwives, winding sheets) and frames existence as a difficult journey. The speaker questions purpose and continuity, asking whether something essential is lost between birth and death and whether love might be the sustaining answer. It presents an open-ended, contemplative interrogation of meaning rather than resolving its doubts, leaving readers with the uneasy, searching tone of cosmic rumour.

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Midwives and winding sheets know birthing is hard and dying is mean and living's a trial in between. Why do we journey, muttering like rumors among the stars? Is a dimension lost? Is it love?

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