Life and Death
It's only fitting that an epitaph would concern life and death, as, by definition, an epitaph is a short text written in honor of someone who has died. This poem ties in some wisdom about life and...
Emotion
For an emotionally affecting poem, most of this poem doesn't talk directly about emotion. Yet, through the images that it shows us, emotions really do come through. Then, the end of the poem talks...
Burial
Life, death, and emotion in this poem are all discussed in the setting of an old woman's burial. Good times, right? Well, not exactly, but while funerals are different in every culture, they are of...