I Died For Beauty But Was Scarce Poem & Theme

Masud Rana

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I died for Beauty - but was scarce

Adjusted in the Tomb

When One who died for Truth, was lain

In an adjoining Room -

He questioned softly "Why I failed"?

"For Beauty", I replied -

"And I - for Truth - Themself are One -

We Bretheren, are", He said -

And so, as Kinsmen, met a Night -

We talked between the Rooms -

Until the Moss had reached our lips -

And covered up - Our names -

THEME:

The theme of this poem is death. The speaker of this poem dies for beauty. Another -------- purpose of truth. They both conclude that death is a form of failure. Man tries to reach a goal --- failure (death). The poet implies that the ultimate failure of a long sought after goal is death.