Death is here and Death is There
The speaker presents death as everywhere, marking everything people are, feel, know and fear. Pleasures, hopes and fears die before people themselves; all they cherish must also perish, and the speaker claims that love itself would die if those cherished things did not.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley · Genre: Lyric Poetry, Philosophical Poetry · 151 words
First lines
1.
Death is here and death is there, / Death is busy everywhere, / All around, within, beneath, / Above is death-and we are death.
2.
Death has set his mark and seal / On all we are and all we feel, / On all we know and all we fear,
Genres
- Lyric Poetry — Four short, rhyming stanzas speak collectively of death's presence and the fading of pleasures, hopes and fears.
- Philosophical Poetry — The speaker considers the sequence of emotional and bodily death and closes with a conditional claim about love's survival.
Tags
mortality · death · love · hopes · impermanence
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Lyric Poetry, Philosophical Poetry
- Length: 151 words
- Structure: 1 section, 8 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Fairly Easy (7th Grade)
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