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This Hour and What Is Dead
by
Li-Young Lee
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This Hour and What Is Dead
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This Hour and What Is Dead Symbolism, Imagery & Wordplay
There’s more to a poem than meets the eye.
God
Okay, okay. Boatloads of poems have God in them, but we don't know of any that describe Him quite like this. There's a definite sense of His being a conglomeration of things, and menacing things at...
Love
Describing what love feels like, or is, is one of the main gestures of this poem. With no specific setting to hold on to, and no particular speaker to get to know, the images of his concept of love...
The Afterlife
For all the effort our speaker puts into describing love, we wonder if it's really just another way of talking about death, which seems to lurk behind every line break in the poem. After all, while...