The Aspect of Death That the Buddha Is Pointing At

Buddhist tradition emphasises that death isn't the end, there is rebirth. Whitman takes a very different idea of death than Larkin. He talks about this in his poetry where he says, death isn't something that waits at the end of life. It's almost an act of sort of creative destruction.

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