Question

appreciation about death the leveller​

Answer 1

The poem death the leveller written by James shriley glorifies death as the most powerful and supreme reality in world. Death is a great leveller. It makes all men equal.

Our earthly glories are more shadows, there is no armour against death. Death happens to all. Some men may makes big conquests but their strong nerves finally become weak. In the end they become prisoners of fate on the olter of death. Victim and victim bleed alike. Death makes rich and the poor, the king and the common man equal in status. Only your good deed will be remembered after death.

The poem uses a no. of poetic devices like simile, metaphor, metanomy and oxymoron to explain his theme. The rhyming scheme is ababccdd.