Could you explain this poem to me!?

Question: Could you explain this poem to me!!?

I am horrible at understanding poetry!

NDER the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie!.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will!.

This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

The poem is "Requiem" by Robert Louis Stevenson!. It is engraved on the author's tombstone!. Once you know that simple fact, you should be able to understand the poem easily enough!. The poet expresses his satisfaction with the life he has led, and his willingness to accept the end of life!. He compares himself, at rest in his grave, to a sailor who is finished with the labor of a sea voyage and a hunter who is finished with the effort of the hunt!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I can't improve on what Danika said, but here are a few extra thoughts!.

You might note that the pun on `grave' ties the poem together!. In the first stanza, it means a tomb; but in the second, it means `engrave!.'

My favourite work by this author (Robert Louis Stevenson) is actually a little short story called `The Song of the Morrow!.' It tries (and succeeds beautifully) in giving the weight of mythology to the human life-cycle; the story is in fact circular!.

I think this poem does something similar!. The speaker is old and dying in the first stanza, but the story of his life is crystallised in the second!. His legacy is not just his epitaph, but probably more importantly, his relationship with the `you' (line 5) that will bury him!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

it sound like this person is tired, and is finally getting to die!. He wants to die and finally go "home" to his paradise!. no more working, no more stress!. Just the utter bliss that comes from the afterlife, the life where all the toils are done and he can relax and be at peace!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

somebody died and it think that the sailor killed him!. idk thats a hard one!.Www@QuestionHome@Com