Poem "Immortality" by Clare Harner: امجد اسلام امجد محبت کی ایک نظم

The Poem "Immortility" is written by US Poetess Claire Horner. Poem "Immortality" is of a poetic nature and expresses moments of sorrow. The poet has used very beautiful metaphors; and similar metaphors have been used by Urdu poet Amjad Islam Amjad. This write up is about two poems; one topic ; but different expressions.

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

In the name of ALLAH, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

Poem "Immortality" by Clare Harner

"Do not stand by my grave and weep" is the first line and popular title of the bereavement poem "Immortality", written by Clare Harner. Clare Harner (1909 - 1977) was born in Green, Kansas. She actively wrote and published poetry. This poem first appeared in the December 1934 issue of The Gypsy magazine and was reprinted in their February 1935 issue. This beautiful poem is probably one of the world's best known and best loved for obvious reasons.

Authors often use immortality as a theme in fictional narratives to explore its consequences on society and the individual as a thought experiment. For many of these stories, the purpose is to serve as a cautionary tale. It is also used for social commentary and as the basis for both utopian and dystopian fiction. In the poem "Immortility"; the metaphors that are used throughout the poem compares the speaker to wind, snow, grain, morning, rain, birds, and stars.

The poem "Immortality" argues that death isn't the ending that people think it is. The poem's speaker, who has died, tells their loved ones not to weep at their gravesite because they aren't there. I am the day transcending night. I am not there, I did not die. Immortality,” the poem below, is a popular elegy read at funerals all over the world.

The popular bereavement poem "Immortality (Do not stand at my grave and weep)" presents death as a kind of transformation rather than an ending. The speaker declares, from beyond the grave, that they've become part of the natural world and now exist in its "winds," "snow," "rain," etc. As such, their loved ones shouldn't "weep" by their burial site, since the speaker isn't there. The poem's speaker urges their loved ones not to mourn at their gravesite because they're not there. In fact, they're not asleep (a euphemism for being dead) at all.

Instead, the speaker says, they now exist in the countless breezes and in the glitter of snow. They're the sunlight falling on ripe crops and they're also the soft rain in autumn. When their loved ones wake up on still, quiet mornings, the speaker exists in the birds that quietly dart upward and circle around each other. The speaker is the daytime as it drives out the night. The speaker again tells their loved ones not to bother coming to their tomb in tears; they don't lie there, because they aren't dead.

The speaker then lists the various shapes their spirit now takes, illustrating how they've found a kind of freedom and immortality through death. Now that their spirit has left their body, the speaker says, they've become "the thousand winds that blow." This suggests that the speaker exists everywhere at once. Like "the thousand winds," they move across the world in every direction, invisible yet always present.

They're also "the diamond glints in snow," "sunlight on ripened grain," and "gentle, autumn rain." These sweet, pleasant images imply that the speaker has become part of the natural world and its cycles. Just as "the day transcend[s] night," the speaker has, through dying, "transcend[ed]" their individual, finite human form and become something much richer and lasting.

Poem "Immortality" By Clare Harner

Do not stand;

By my grave, and weep.

I am not there,

I do not sleep—

I am the thousand winds that blow

I am the diamond glints in snow

I am the sunlight on ripened grain,

I am the gentle, autumn rain.

As you awake with morning's hush,

I am the swift, up-flinging rush

Of quiet birds in circling flight,

I am the day transcending night.

Do not stand

By my grave, and cry—

I am not there,

I did not die.

Two poets; two poems; one topic ; but different expressions

Claire Horner's poem "Immortality"; is of a poetic nature and expresses moments of sorrow. This poem expresses the immortality of life, that life is a series in phases; in which when death comes in this life, the soul flies away and the earthly body merges into the dust. The poet has used very beautiful metaphors, borrowing from the next states of the soul and body; and with the help of similar metaphors, the famous Pakistani Urdu poet Amjad Islam Amjad has beautifully expressed in the title "A Poem of Love". Death brings separation and this poem can be said to be an expression of love expressed in separation. Let's read the poem of Amjad Islam Amjad.

A poem of love (google translated)

If you ever miss me

Then look at a star in the soft, charming light of the moonlit nights

If that star flies from the sky

And falls at your feet

Then know that it was a metaphor for my heart

If it doesn't come

But how is it possible that if you look at someone,

their soul wall won't break,

they won't forget their own identity,

if you ever remember me,

hold my hand on the waves of the fleeing wind,