Often noted for the authoritative tone evident in the first few lines, this poem starts with the speaker dictating the reader to not weep at his/her grave for they are not there in the grave. From Goodreads, ‘The poem for which she became famous was originally composed on a brown paper shopping bag, and was reportedly inspired by the story of a young Jewish girl, Margaret Schwarzkopf, who had been staying with the Frye household and had been unable to visit her dying mother in Germany because of anti-Semitic unrest.’ Words cannot return people, but they can show death as the birth of a new life.Written in 1932, this poem was written from the perspective of a person beyond the grave, someone who was well aware of what it felt like to die. Where do our dearest people disappear after death? “I am a thousand winds that blow. It gave them a chance to get rid of the feeling that, if a human life could be interrupted so suddenly and so cruelly, it has no meaning at all. Yet the name of the author remained unknown to almost all the people who sought consolation. I do not sleep” could be heard for more than 75 year, on thousands of funerals. The line “Do not stand at my grave and weep I am not there. The simple words of consolation, alluding to the Bible, really helped people to go through a loss. The person, for whom the poem was composed, was a Jewish girl who had not been able to see her dying mother in Germany because of anti-Semitic unrest. The poet herself could very well understand these feeling, as she lost her own mother at the age of three. The poem “Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep”, composed in the state of creative irradiation, had a certain aim: Mary Frye wanted to help a girl to go through a terrible loss, the loss of her mother.
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