Give a summary of the poem "Death the Leveller"
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In this poem, James Shirley, a seventeenth-century writer primarily known as a dramatist, versifies on a theme popularized in the Middle Ages: the idea that death levels or makes us all equal.
In the first stanza, the narrator focuses on the idea that even kings, the most powerful of all people, must perish like the rest of us, stating,
Death lays his icy hand on kings
In the second stanza, the speaker turns his attention to brave warriors, who, like everyone else, will "creep to death."
Finally, in the last stanza, the speaker warns people not to brag about their great deeds, because we are all destined to end up in the grave. In the final couplet, he notes that only the deeds of those acted justly in life will "smell sweet and blossom" after they are dead and gone.
The poem warns that only our virtue—our acting morally and ethically—matters after our lives have ended.
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