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Comparing When Death Comes by Mary Oliver , To an Athlete Dying Young by A .E . Housman and A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

Introduction

Death for people has different meanings some think that death is the end of everything , the end of their life and other might say that death is the beginning of a new adventure

Some religions see death as another opportunity to live another life with a clean slate . Hinduism believes in reincarnation or the cycle of being

born again after dying a person can be reincarnated into an insect if he /she has lived his /her life with evil the person will be reincarnated depending on the karma the person receives when he /she is living his /her current life

Everyone is subjected to death and dying no one can escape death Everyone will have to face death one day and whatever people 's perspective might be about death , they cannot escape it . So , if a person plans to live his life , he /she must seize the day and look at the bright side of things , instead of wasting all efforts on things that will not even matter in the end

Analysis of the three literary works

The poems of Oliver and Housman and the short story of Faulkner have all tackled death in different situations

Mary Oliver has authored many books , all of them containing poetries and prose . One of her most known poems is When Death Comes...