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Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. [7]
Accustom yourself to believing that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply the capacity for sensation, and death is the privation of all sentience; therefore, a correct understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life a limitless time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality.
Inspired by the Ars Moriendi and the popular, The Book of the Craft of Dying during the 15th century, Londoners and western Europe at large gravitated towards a quasi-legal relationship with death and God that ensured the rightful passing of not only one's physical belonging but, also one's spiritual soul.
Eve returns to Adam, who reproaches her. Eve lies prostrate with grief. Adam complains about Satan persecuting them, and Satan explains that he and his followers refused God's command to worship both Adam, the image of the God, and God himself. Thus Satan with his angels were expelled from heaven, deprived of their glory and began to envy men.
The commentary on Romans attributed to Pelagius (who was declared a heretic, though for his view of grace, not his view of atonement) gives a description of the atonement which states that a person's sins have "sold them to death," and not to the devil, and that these sins alienate them from God, until Jesus, dying, ransomed people from death. [6]
The narrator then reflects on the moments prior to the very moment she died. [1] The speaker's observations establish her as a character despite her death. [ 4 ] In the second stanza, the narrator appears isolated from her surroundings, detached from people who are witnessing her death and aftermath. [ 3 ]
Lewis focuses on Satan's egoism, claiming that "Satan's monomaniac concern with himself and his supposed rights and wrongs is a necessity of the Satanic predicament". [3] [12] Lewis urges that we should "simply reject everything" Satan "says as untrue, even from his own point of view", [14] and refers to him as "a personified self-contradiction".
"Life or death is welcome to me; and I desire not to live, but so far as I may be serviceable to God and His church." [11]: 179 — William Whitaker, Calvinistic Anglican churchman, academic and theologian (4 December 1595) "Do not announce my death." ("나의 죽음을 알리지 마라.")