FUCK YEE YEAH ENGLISH

One would find that "Do not stand at my grave and weep" by Mary E. Frye to be favoured at funeral and memorial ceremonies due to it's uplifting idea that a person does not die, but rather, lives on. The poem brings up the idea that a person is not at their grave "[sleeping]," (Frye)however, they live on as "diamond glints on snow" and "sunlight on ripened grain" (Frye), suggesting that the persons memory does not die, therefore they do not die. This idea gives any mourners the hope that their loved one lives on in all the beauty around them and that they should treasure that knowledge. This being the alternative to the very bleek message that they are just dead, and it is what it is. Therefore, the deseased lives on because they "did not die" (Frye) in the ones of those who will go on to charish the moments of happiness and beauty in the world. Happiness and beauty that they can relate back to their loved one, and therefore help along with the grieving process. These ideals bring about why "Do not stand at my grave and weep" by Mary E. Frye is favoured at funeral and memorial ceremonies, due to it's uplifting tone.