Post #4: Last Thoughts

Stanza Analysis of:

Last Thoughts by Unknown author (2016)

 "Why must I sit up so late and ponder,

in a mental state that seems so somber?

As I sit here in my room,

I somehow imagine if it were my tomb.

In my tomb, would people stop by?

Would my friends and family, mourn and cry?

No one would miss me, if this world I were to depart.

I am entirely sure of it, I can feel it in my heart.

If you do come to my tomb to mourn and cry,

Understand that at this place, I truly did die."    

Stanza Analysis:

1. Within stanza one, the speaker asks himself why must he stay up to the latest point of the night and think deeply in a grave mood. He imagines if his room were to be his final resting place and thinks if anyone from his mortal life would show up to pay their respects to him, for he has finally left this plane of mundane existence. He wonders if whoever loved him in his life, would they do the same after he has departed?

2. In stanza two, the speaker now speaks on how he believes that the people that love him in life won't follow through and love him after he has gone. He truly believes that if anyone were to show up to his final resting place to pay their respects, that they should understand that at this place, every ounce of his being, physical and spiritual, died at that place of rest. 

Sources: Tomb picture, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tomb_of_Ouida.JPG

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