Death Billy Collins Poem Structure

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The existence of life occurs in an ever looping cycle; almost everything in society is a cycle in some form or another. This reputation of the meaningless is the thought I wanted to capture and exemplify in this poem. To convey this thought I believed the most logical way for this to be shown is a set of word pairs; with each one relating the last word to the beginning word of the next pair. Ending with an eventual tie from the last word of the poem to the very beginning; this builds up an internal cycle within the poem itself, thus, reflecting the overall theme of the poem. The poem itself exists and thrives on repetition, for without it the poem itself could not have the tying of words, which forms the literal and psychological meaning

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