An Epitaph Summary || An Epitaph by Walter De La Mare

 Bihar Board Class 12th English 100 Marks

Chapter-5

An Epitaph 

                                           -Walter de la Mare

 An Epitaph is written by Walter de la Mare. Epitaph is tomb of a dead body. Where lies a beautiful lady.

Actually poet loved very much to that lady. She was very beautiful. One day that lady died and buried finally in the grave. So in this poem poet is expressing his sad feeling for a lady who is lying in a grave. The poet goes to the tomb which was made in the memory of that lady. He weeps there bitterly and thinks who will remember her after his death. The poet is in the opinion that man is mortal and soul is immortal. Poet says body falls down into pieces but soul changes the other new body to live. The poet says whoever comes on the earth must die. But their fame remains permanently in this universe.