Question

Hoping to cease not till death.

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

"Hoping to cease not till death" are the words from a poem, 'Song of Myself' written by Walter Witman.

These words mean that when a person hopes for the better situations to unfold. For instance, in this case, the poet is saying that he"hopes that he does not die".

  'Hope to cease not till death', means that hoping/looking forward to the fact that death doesn't come your way.

In the given poem the writer talks about various points of hope and dreams and celebrating life.

Answer 2

Interpretation:

"Hoping to cease not till death" is a line in what became the first canto of "Song Of Myself", as published in the final edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves Of Grass (1891-92), and its literal meaning refers to the preceding line,

"I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health, begin",

and the opening line:

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself".

So the line's primary meaning is that the poet hopes to sing that song until they die.

And it can be taken as a metaphor for life as a whole. Perhaps you need to have a few decades under your belt, as Whitman had when he wrote it, to understand the desirability of continuing to sing of oneself right up to the point of death, rather than lingering on past that point, enduring death in life.