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Poet: e.e. cummings (e.e. cummings Art)
Poem: dying is fine)but Death
Comment 25 of 25, added on July 12th, 2009 at 11:43 PM.
I really like this poem because I'm trying to understand what is " Death" now
asunka from Australia
Comment 24 of 25, added on August 2nd, 2008 at 8:19 PM.
As cummings uses them here, neither dying or death refer to the death of the body. 'Death' here, is actually a fate worse than death, as we know it. It is the death or awareness, of feeling and consciousness. It's the attachment to the world of form and identification with the ego and its objectification of 'things' (maya).
'Dying' is the awakening into the moment; "when you begin to feel of it". It's the death of fear, the death of ego, being fully present beyond the mind "(instead of stopping to think)".
Thus the gratitude for dying and the regret of death.
William Brennan from United States
Comment 23 of 25, added on May 6th, 2007 at 9:42 PM.
jessie's got it...when he says "dying," he's referring to the physical cessation of a heartbeat and brain activity. but when he says "Death," it definitely symbolizes a spiritual death, a loss of one's vivacity and fervor, a loss of one's beliefs or morals, a loss of one's essential self (something that, more often than not, occurs while one is still breathing and physically functioning).the last little part:
we thank thee
god
almighty for dying
(forgive us,o life!the sin of Death
makes this rather apparent...dying is natural and good, but Death is abominable.
justina from United States
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I really like this poem because I'm trying to understand what is " Death" now
asunka from Australia