Question

I need help finding the theme of a poem. I'm analyzing Oblivion by Jessie Redmon Fauset and I'm not sure if I have the theme right. So I have: In “Oblivion” the author is telling us about when you die, people will mourn you even though if you don’t want it, as far as you are from other graves people will always come to visit you. This poem teaches me that no matter how far you are from others they will always come to reach you.

Answer 1

what do you think the theme is?

Answer 2

So far, I wrote: In “Oblivion” the author is telling us about when you die, people will mourn you even though if you don’t want it, as far as you are from other graves people will always come to visit you. This poem teaches me that no matter how far you are from others they will always come to reach you.

But I'm not sure if that's right.

Answer 3

I just read her poem.
And yeah, thats a good answer :)

Answer 4

I hope when I am dead that I shall lie
In some deserted grave--I cannot tell you why,
But I should like to sleep in some neglected spot,
Unknown to every one, by every one forgot.


There lying I should taste with my dead breath
The utter lack of life, the fullest sense of death;
And I should never hear the note of jealousy or hate,
The tribute paid by passers-by to tombs of state.


To me would never penetrate the prayers and tears
That futilely bring torture to dead and dying ears;
There I should lie annihilate and my dead heart would bless
Oblivion--the shroud and envelope of happiness.

Answer 5

Thank you! :D

Answer 6

The narrator hopes that she doesn't have any awareness of people grieving or hating her when she dies, and she thinks that oblivion would be real happiness
that would be something to add too

Answer 7

Sorry, but I have another question: Would you say there is a shift in the poem? I read it over again and there doesn't seem to be any changes in the poet or attitude. Would it be safe to say that the poem stays neutral throughout?