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Question: QUick!.!.!.!.help Poem problem!!!!!(10 points)!?
The Dead---------Charles Heavysege
How great unto the living seem the dead!
How sacred, solemn; how heroic grown;
How vast and vague, as they obscurely tread
The shadowy confines of the dim unknown!--
For they have met the monster that we dread,
Have learned the secret not to mortal shown!.
E'en as gigantic shadows on the wall
The spirit of the daunted child amaze,
So on us thoughts of the departed fall,
And with phantasma fill our gloomy gaze!.
Awe and deep wonder lend the living lines,
And hope and ecstasy the borrowed beams;
While fitful fancy the full form divines,
And all is what imagination dreams!.
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It is talking about death and how some of us fear it, and some of us admire those who are dead for their accomplishments however big or small!. It also is saying how death is mysterious and we never know what it's going to be like, but this poet seems to believe that the journey is one of pure happiness and where you dreams come true, so I think he is talking about heaven there!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
its saying that the dead people in the peom think of bring alive(the living people in the poem) are heros to be able to live, and that they would give anything to live again!. and that the monster that "they meet" is death, and that everyone dreds death, basicallly theres the poem!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
It means how the livings envy the deads because the deads have peaceful life but at the same time the livings believe its something that is only imaginedWww@QuestionHome@Com
its talking about how the living envy the dead, what they go through, and how easy they have it but then again what we think of death is but dreamsWww@QuestionHome@Com
the dead are greater than the living cuz they have encountered death, which the living r all really afraid of!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Do your own homework, you need the practice for college!. Your gonna have a lot harder reading there!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Sound like some horror poem about spirits or somethingWww@QuestionHome@Com
Wow, that seems complicated!.!.!. sorry, I cannot!Www@QuestionHome@Com