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When Death goes a-reaping All through his empire, merciless comer The dead things of summer. The sky has cried so That the earth is all sodden, With dead leaves in-trodden, And the trees to and fro Wave their arms in the air In despair, in despair : They are thinking of all the hot days that are over, And the cows in the clover. Here the roses ...
This poem departs from the traditional portrayal of Death as a fearsome reaper and instead presents it as a gentle and caring figure. Death's presence in the garden preserves the innocence and beauty of life, preventing them from becoming tainted or marred by experience.
Analysis (ai): This poem, with its lucid and somber tone, elegizes a deceased poet. The speaker, having dreamed of the departed, remembers their radiant presence and eloquent voice. The poem celebrates the poet's ability to uncover the hidden beauty in the mundane, transforming the world into an enchanted place.
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Lord Alfred Douglas. Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945), also known as Bosie Douglas, was an English poet and journalist, and a lover of Oscar Wilde. At Oxford he edited an undergraduate journal, The Spirit Lamp, that carried a homoerotic subtext, and met Wilde, starting a close but stormy relationship.
In early blooming ; and a many sound. Of ten-stringed lute, and most mellifluous breath. Of silver flute, and mellow half-heard horn, Making unmeasured music. Thither Death. Coming like Love, takes all things in the morn. Of tenderest life, and being a delicate god, In his own garden takes each delicate thing.
The stark imagery depicts the inevitability of death and its relentless power. Lord Alfred Douglas's poem aligns with the themes of morbidity and mortality common in Decadent poetry, a literary movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
