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Live Like You Were Dying Analysis
After reading“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost”and listened to the song “live Like You Were Dying”the similarities were they were both living life because you never know when you are going to die like at the ending of “stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”it said “and miles i go before i sleep” and “Live Like You Were Dying” the guy had brain cancer. The theme of both of them is to leave life life to the fullest because you never know when you are going to die.
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