Words cannot return people, but they can show death as the birth of a new life. She offers words of comfort for those who. Where do our dearest people disappear after death? “I am a thousand winds that blow. In this touching poem, Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep, by Mary Frye, she speaks of death in a welcoming tone. 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. As you awake with morning’s hush I am the swift-up-flinging rush Of quiet birds in circling flight. 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. 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. Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there I do not sleep. 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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