After You Death Analysis

Furthermore, The big part of her life that fully involves in her poem is about her mother death. An agony, pain, and suffer of losing influence most of her work, as she tried to deal with her anxiety by writing through the poem. No matter how hard you tried, you can never leave your memory. In the poem “After you death”, she express a lot of the feeling of guilty in fact that she could not help her mother from being killed or abusing. The first stanza with the word emptied implied that she was trying to leave out all the memories about her mother:

Afterwards, If we read down through the poem, she mentioned the fruit trees that rustled by the birds and half eaten. At the third stanza, “I found it half-eaten, the other side already rotting,
In her view, she illustrated us to depart from Mississippi where she think that she did not belongs to. Imagine if live was a book, travelling is one of your chapter. You told the story while you on your way, broaden the seize, experiencing the world, discover the new things that you’ve never know as “another minute of your life” (4th stanza). Natasha lead us to the coast, the pier at Gulfport at the southern of Mississippi, where there was a dock and ferry where you can ship to other places. She informed us to bring only what we must carry. From here, she demonstrated that we must keep only importance and meaningful for us, and leave out all those unnecessary and bad or worst memories that you does not want to keep with. Despite the fact that you can escape from somethings you does not need, you could not really evacuate from it forever. Indeed, whether you in search for new life, there will be some who take a picture of you that moment. She stated in the last stanza of the poem that: “where you board the boat for Ship Island, someone will take your picture:

the photograph—who you were— will be waiting when you return.”
The last stanza comes to the peak of the poem, it given the facts that, no matter how much or how far you tries to runaway from their past, it still followed you like a shadow, where you can never ignore it. M.R. Gott said in quote of him that “The dead are the past and we cannot escape the past. Without the past there will be no future”. On the whole, throughout the poem of Na trethway, we can discovered a lot about her story in her poem. It follows with the fact that what happen in her life totally shaped her writing styles and view of