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I died for Beauty, but was scarce

Presented by:

Ryan Mathews

Shifts

There is a shift between the second and third stanza.

-From using I to using we.

-Change from death seeming lonely to death being experienced with others.

Attitude

-Speaker's attitude is calm acceptance of his/her fate.

-Poet's attitude is hopeful.

Theme

In death we are joined by others like ourselves.

Form

-The feet in this poem are iambic.

-The first and third lines of each stanza contain 4 feet each (Iambic tetrameter).

-The second and fourth lines of each stanza contain 3 feet each (Iambic trimeter).

Paraphrase

Metaphors and Imagery

-Grave compared with a room.

-Lines 1 & 2- "scarce/ Adjusted in the Tomb"

-Lines 11 and 12- "Moss had reached our lips-/ And covered up- our names-

I died for the sake of beauty. I had just barely been placed in my grave when someone who had died for the sake of truth was placed in the grave next to mine. He asked me why I had died. I replied that it was for the sake of beauty. He said he had died for truth. He then said that beauty and truth are the same, so we are family. As family, we met in death. We conversed between our graves until moss grew on our gravestones and grew over our names.

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