I'm afraid of death (everyone is afraid) because it inflates the definition of what a person is (maybe how the person is), or love, until they become the same, (Love until time ends) love, the beloved, immaterial.
I'm afraid of death because it invents a different kind of time (maybe the clock stops), a stopped clock that can't be reset, (can't go back to the past) only repurchased, and antiquity. (Old stuff maybe)
I'm afraid of death, the magician who makes vanish and who makes odd things appear (All in other places) in odd places- your name engraves itself (The piece where it is placed) on a stranger's chest in letters of char.
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The overall tone that I have gotten out from this poem was anxiously horrified because the speaker was anxious on what will happen to everyone who is going to die sooner or later. The speaker's tone was also horrified because the speaker is in horror on what will happen. Everyone else thinks the same manner, which everyone is afraid of death, while some of them don't even fear death.
The big idea that I got from this poem was that the person doesn't want anything to happen. The line that shows it was, "I''m afraid of death/ because it invents/a different kind of time." I guess the speaker doesn't want to die soon and the speaker knew that it will stop time, sooner or later, life will end.
Another line that stood out to me, which it is a continuation, was, "A stopped clock/that can't be reset,/only repurchased/and antiquity." It also connects to the big idea by saying that the time can't be reset, and people can't reset their lives again to fix their mistakes. So, it is mostly saying that life is like a clock, that can't be reset. And sooner or later, life will end soon, for everyone.