While the speaker is mortal and acknowledges the inevitability of death, the poems argue that love-romantic, familial, communal-creates a form of immortality. We survive ourselves through what we give away: in the stories we tell, the habits we pass down, the scars we carry, the objects we cherish, and the people whose lives we've touched.
While the speaker is mortal and acknowledges the inevitability of death, the poems argue that love-romantic, familial, communal-creates a form of immortality. We survive ourselves through what we give away: in the stories we tell, the habits we pass down, the scars we carry, the objects we cherish, and the people whose lives we've touched.