Analysis of After Death by Christina Rossetti - Poemotopia

The story that life begins at birth and ends at death is too small. That story doesn’t reflect the reality of most people’s experiences or intuitive knowing, and it doesn’t give us the perspective we need to meet death in a healing way. When we expand our story, we realize that our lives are like all the other cycles in nature, with things are constantly coming into and out of form. From this view, birth and death are gateways: we come into a body through one gateway and leave it through the oth

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