For A Lamb

Death is defined as the cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants. Death is much used adjectively and as the first part of a compound, meaning, in general, of or pertaining to death, causing or presaging death; as, deathbed or death bed; deathblow or death blow. The poem, “For The Lamb”, is about death in general along with the circle of life.
Eberhart is using poetry to try and bring together the huge discontinuities he sees in the physical with life, and then later without life as it decomposes. He juxtaposes crude reality with spiritual concepts, and exposes how civilization is based so much on the end and finds it d...