Earth to earth

The passage receives a comical touch through the speaker’s use of imagery and metaphors. Throughout the whole passage, he never once points out that someone had to move the coffin and that someone had to close the door. When his mother “speaks” to him at the end of the passage, it shows that he does in fact believe in an afterlife and believes that his mother has moved on to this afterlife. The fire took his mother to a better place than where he is, and through this line, the speaker expresses his deepest love for his mother. This may be because he believes his mother’s soul is still living, but he views her as living in the afterlife and not in the world in which he exists. ” This shows that he is not concerned with the spiritual idea behind laying the ashes, but that he was there when his mother needed him to be there the most: during the cremation. The syntax in the passage also shows his incredibly sympathetic attitude toward his mother’s cremation.

Through the unique use of literary devises, the speaker expresses a different and deep love for a mother in a non-traditional manner. Through this line, the speaker conveys that he and his mother are not incredibly interested in tradition. The speaker delves into minute detail of the actual cremation and says “that merry episode was the end, except for making dust of the bone scraps and scattering them on a flower bed. ” The various words that he uses to describe the occurrence, such as “beautiful,” “merry,” “enjoyed,” “wildly funny,” “lovely,” and “wonderful,” basically sum up his overjoyed attitude.