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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OCTAVES: 10, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
Last Line: With weeping, and be glad that he is gone.
Subject(s): Loneliness
Last Line: With weeping, and be glad that he is gone.
Subject(s): Loneliness
Where does a dead man go? -- The dead man dies;
But the free life that would no longer feed
On fagots of outburned and shattered flesh
Wakes to a thrilled invisible advance,
Unchained (or fettered else) of memory;
And when the dead man goes it seems to me
'T were better for us all to do away
With weeping, and be glad that he is gone.
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