The speaker is saying death is not scary in comparison to other things. It says death can’t kill nor can it kill the speaker. Death seems to be compared to sleep. Death is like a slave because it is like poison, war and sickness. It mentions poppy as it says that basically taking drugs will do the same thing to you. It will make you go to sleep nothing else. Religion seems to play a significant role in this poem. Christianity takes place because death is just like a nap because someone of Christian religion will have eternal life. The speaker uses a lot of comparison throughout the poem to make death look bad. It is almost as if they were two people the speaker is trying to make fun of “death” and explaining why it is nothing to fear. It compares death to sleep a lot, but sleep is something that we enjoy. By sleeping we can obtain being happy, it is something we like so we don’t fear going to sleep at all. Moral of poem is that death has no power. Death is just something that comes along while we reach eternal life. There are other things worse than death because it is just like taking a
The speaker is saying death is not scary in comparison to other things. It says death can’t kill nor can it kill the speaker. Death seems to be compared to sleep. Death is like a slave because it is like poison, war and sickness. It mentions poppy as it says that basically taking drugs will do the same thing to you. It will make you go to sleep nothing else. Religion seems to play a significant role in this poem. Christianity takes place because death is just like a nap because someone of Christian religion will have eternal life. The speaker uses a lot of comparison throughout the poem to make death look bad. It is almost as if they were two people the speaker is trying to make fun of “death” and explaining why it is nothing to fear. It compares death to sleep a lot, but sleep is something that we enjoy. By sleeping we can obtain being happy, it is something we like so we don’t fear going to sleep at all. Moral of poem is that death has no power. Death is just something that comes along while we reach eternal life. There are other things worse than death because it is just like taking a