Defending Death: A Response to “I Have a Rendezvous with De
When an English student reads the famous poem “I Have a Rendezvous with Death” by Alan Seeger for the first time it is likely that the student will interpret the poem one of two ways. Either they will assume the poem is about a soldier preparing to die in battle, or the poem is a personification of winter anticipating the coming of spring. When I first read the poem I admit that I thought the former to be right; though this was easy for me as I was reading it as part of a 20th Century History class I was taking. Apparently most people think that the winter interpretation is the correct one. I find this absurd and confusing. How can people read the poem and not see the literal references to war in it?
There is one main reason for student
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