Can someone figure out the theme for this poem?
Question by crazzykidd24: Can someone figure out the theme for this poem?
Title Immortal
Author Untermeyer, Louis (1885–1977)
Death cannot keep me; even when the dry
Earth holds me warm, a rose-bush at my head.
I shall not be content to loaf and lie
Inactive in that strait and slothful bed.
For soon the happy restlessness of life
Shall pierce me, stir me, make me once again
Part of the vigor and the freshening strife,
Raised by the miracles of sun and rain.
And when at length the grudging winters pass,
Endowed with swift and splendid liberty,
I shall go forth in rich and sturdy grass;
Shall scent the clover, call the thirsting bee.
I shall be in the urge that bursts the pod,
Pushing the sap along the stiffening tree;
That gives the young branch leaves, that stabs the sod.
The rose shall bloom more proudly—bearing me.
All things shall feel and drink me unawares;
The scattering winds,
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it seems me the theme would be after life or a re-birth of sort. he is talking about being burried and then coming back through the grass and trees.
ravensgirl
June 24, 2012 at 5:44 am
The writer is talking about after she dies her body will become one with the earth by becoming a tree, which will in turn feed the earth.
She is pretty much saying she will live forever.
A Gabbi
June 24, 2012 at 6:11 am
life.
serena_morris70
June 24, 2012 at 6:18 am
well… its obviously a plant of some sort. My guess is a bulb.
TraumaMomm
June 24, 2012 at 6:32 am
To me it says that you can’t let life get you down. No matter what stands before you life will always follow the path you choose. Don’t hang your head when fear makes you want to hide, hold you head high and fight with all inside of you to achive your dreams.
Joni L
June 24, 2012 at 7:05 am
Re incarnation on a spiritual level it says we don’t really die we Evolve-try watching Stargate SG1
john m
June 24, 2012 at 7:39 am
i think it is about death and becoming one with the things around us and in turn, sharing ourselves with others even if we leave our mortal body, thus immortality.
noooodle
June 24, 2012 at 7:48 am
Courage and Willpower in the Face of Death
(akin to Donne’s poem, “Death, be not proud”)
Neb.A
June 24, 2012 at 8:46 am
Why should we do your homework?
SgtMoto
June 24, 2012 at 9:45 am
That though dead, his spirit will arise to inhabit all living
things and become the very essence of their life force,
resurrecting himself and embracing eternal freedom.
I see it as a triumph of the molecules.
AbFab
June 24, 2012 at 9:59 am