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    This poem discusses the uncertainty of life and inevitability of death. It references several quotes about how easily death can come and how little separates life and death. While people have many dreams and goals, death is certain and the time is uncertain, so not all dreams can be achieved in the short time of life. The poem reflects on the impermanence of all things and that in the end, both kings and commoners go to the same grave. It describes the silence and lack of grief that comes with death's stillness.

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    This poem discusses the uncertainty of life and inevitability of death. It references several quotes about how easily death can come and how little separates life and death. While people have many dreams and goals, death is certain and the time is uncertain, so not all dreams can be achieved in the short time of life. The poem reflects on the impermanence of all things and that in the end, both kings and commoners go to the same grave. It describes the silence and lack of grief that comes with death's stillness.

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    An Ode To Death Summary

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    This poem discusses the uncertainty of life and inevitability of death. It references several quotes about how easily death can come and how little separates life and death. While people have many dreams and goals, death is certain and the time is uncertain, so not all dreams can be achieved in the short time of life. The poem reflects on the impermanence of all things and that in the end, both kings and commoners go to the same grave. It describes the silence and lack of grief that comes with death's stillness.

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    An Ode to Death Summary:

    In the opening lines of the poem he has quoted Conrad Aiken:

    Your ode to death is in lifting of a single eyebrow. If it and see.


    This first citation demonstrates that there is almost no separation between man’s life and demise. The
    account of man’s life end precisely when, demise get a handle on him in its arms. It occurs inside seconds
    and it requires even much little investment than lifting of an eyebrow. How microscopic is distance
    between a man and demise.

    Death is more than a certain, says E.E Cummings,


    But the clocks go on ticking as before
    Then he takes the quotation of E.E Cummings that: Death is more than a certain. Death is an ultimate
    reality, it’s certain and undeniable fact. No one can escape from its grip. There is a saying of Owen
    Meredith that:

    There is nothing certain in a man’s life that he must lose it.


    Almost certainly that everybody encounters to die one day, yet it’s in like manner a reality that time bears
    no impact with the destruction of a spirit. Nobody can bite the dust with the sorrow of his friends and
    family demise, finally he need to come towards his normal life. As the needles of clock tick constantly for
    anybody same is the situation with people they take constantly breath with the passing of their beloveds.

    And in every particle of carbon-dust


    There lives a diamond dreams.
    If we comprehend the concoction organization of a precious stone it’s comprised of carbon. In any case,
    it isn’t essential that each particle of carbon dust turns into a constituent of the precious stone or jewel
    itself. Like is the situation with men that it isn’t really in the fortune of each individual that he achieve
    every one of his wants in this extremely short liveliness. Because:

    Death is certain but the time of death is uncertain


    There are two lines from Hairat Allahabadi’s poetry which shows the uncertainty of life:

    Aagaah apnii mout se koi basher nahiin


    Saamaan sau baras ka hai pal ki khabar nahiin
    How many galaxies yet to be explored—–
    How many seeds in the pomegranate of time?
    Human creatures has awesome aspirations and wishes throughout their life, yet it is incomprehensible
    for a man to satisfy them all since time resembles a pomegranate and the deeds and wishes of man are
    its seeds and he can’t satisfy them all. He can’t make all his wishes in extremely restricted life.
    According to Bahadur Shaw Zafar:

    Umr-e-daraz mang-ke laye tthe char-din


    Do arzu-me kat gaye, do intezar-me
    The pine tree blasted by last year’s thunderbolt
    and the burnt-out match-stick in my ashtray
    looks so terribly alike.
    These are extremely excellent lines in light of the fact that the writer has made a correlation amongst of
    all shapes and sizes animal wisely. He brings up that what is a contrast between a gigantic pine tree which
    was demolished by a crash of thunder a year ago and a little match stick which he has copied out in his
    ashtray. The finish of both is same. Both need to taste the kind of death. In the event that there bite the
    dust an awesome nobleman of a nation and a poor homeless person of a similar country, what
    improvement is in the middle of both. The last goal of both is grave. There is an Italian proverb that:

    When the game is over, the king and pawn go into the same box.
    I have sat by your bedside and felt
    your sinking pulse. Are the hair and bones
    really indestructible and how long
    does it take for the eyes
    to dissolve in the grave?

    It’s a discussion amongst artist and a man who will kick the bucket. To express the vulnerability of life
    artist deliver to a man, that is on a deathbed and says I am holding your sinking heartbeat and feeling you
    taking final gasp. Typically it is viewed as that hair and bones of body remained long while all body parts
    disintegrated soon. So he requests an inquiry here that how much time your hair and bone will take to
    disintegrate in the grave and do I too live alive till that time. Do I have the surety of my own life that to
    what extent I live? It’s an exceptionally pleasant citation of Euripides about the vulnerability of life: No
    one can unquestionably say that he will live tomorrow.

    Two streams mingle in a forgotten river,


    Between the eye and tear,
    In this section the writer needs to state that, the Existence of people is the mix of soul and body, and these
    two components blend into the extravagances and shades of life. The word ‘two streams “utilized in these
    lines which implies that, the human spirit and human body and which “blend into the overlooked
    waterway” of world. The connection amongst life and passing resembles the connection between an eye
    and tear. In the bustling life individuals overlook demise will come as quickly as detaches spill out of eye.
    Nobody realizes that when tears will start to move outside the eye correspondingly, nobody realizes that
    when demise will come however it will doubtlessly happen.

    There is an archipelago of naked rocks


    Only sleep and silence there,
    No anchorage for grief.

    Now the Daud Kamal introducing the state of grave after death, there is a quietness, and perpetual rest
    in the gathering of islands. The quietness in the island in writing is the image of risk and furthermore
    demonstrates the quietness of death in light of the fact that there are no more hardships of life. In reality
    Daud Kamal here presents the Islamic perspective about the everlasting post-existence. He says this is a
    position of barrel bare rocks, and there is no space of despondency, it is free from all trails. Troubles,
    sorrows of life.
    I, too have wandered in a forest of symbols
    And clutched at the hanots of memory,
    In this verse the readers also seems Daud Kamal’s, personal feelings about his own past life. He says that
    he had indulged in ethically bad habits. He says that,

    When I imagine his own death time, and thinks about his past life, there is nothing except
    the darkness of prostitutes’ have seen the stars paramount to their dark addresses I have felt your
    absence around my neck…
    Now here Again Daud Kamal presenting the concept of death that death is a ultimate reality. Everyone
    have to die. We can take an example from the history, that the brave leaders like Muhammad bin Qasim
    and even cruel leaders like Hitler was came, but the end of all was death. Death is blind it never see who
    is in front of it, either it is a huge or small creature.

    But let bygones be gones


    Who was the deceiver and who the deceived
    Was I on a floating island?
    And were you on the shore,
    Which one of move away.
    These lines are about the inclination which a man feels when passing happens and artist has express all
    these inclination perfectly. He says that I am feeling that my life is moving far from me. Demise as a pitiless
    beast is overwhelming my life. I can feel however can’t do any do anything since I am sad. The artist is
    communicating cynics feeling of man. The artist says that nobody knows; either life is backstabber or
    demise or which one of them will bamboozle or both are offering swindle to each other. Daud kamal is
    making an inquiry to life that either on skimming Island or you was on a shore entirely one knows who
    moves away he is speaking with life that it is possible that you moved far from me or I drew close to death.

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