Comparing Death In A Carcass And Ghalib's It

Death’s Embrace We enter this world with a loud cry of discomfort, of displeasure, of pain. We may even leave this life behind in that same fashion, full of agony. Who is to say how our end is supposed to be, Death himself? Do we get a chance at peace? We may leave earlier than most, or we may outlive everyone that we’ve been drawn to throughout our stay. We may be ripped from the world of living or we may drift away during our slumber. Death is inevitable, that much we know. Charles Baudelaire’s A Carcass and Ghalib’s It was Essential are two very different takes on death. While Baudelaire focuses on what will be, Ghalib focuses on what could’ve been. In these poems both authors are encountering death from different perspectives. In A Carcass, Baudelaire stumbles across a decaying body. Baudelaire is dissociated with the deceased and because of that he comes off harsh almost to the point of being sarcastic. Ghalib, on the other hand, is writing about the loss of his son. Ghalib seems much more delicate to the thought of death than Baudelaire due to his relationship with the deceased. Ghalib emphasizes many times throughout It was Essential that he doesn’t understand why death comes when it does, but it is clear that both Ghalib and Baudelaire agree
While on their walk they come across a decomposing body, otherwise known as a carcass. Baudelaire is very descriptive and grotesque in his word choices to provide a great source of imagery. He begins by describing that the body is “spread out like a lecherous whore” (5). He then proceeds to exclaim that the body has been cooked in the sun’s bright light. He describes the foul smell of decay as “The stench so wretched that there on the grass, you nearly collapsed over and swoon” (15-16). He tells us about the flies and maggots that swarm the body of which was once full of life, and that is now tattered