Quote by Helen Hunt Jackson
Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, but Emigrated to another star!
Summary
In these lines, the speaker desires to be remembered in a novel and extraordinary way. They do not wish to be perceived as someone who merely suffered through hardships and died, but rather as someone who transcended the boundaries of earthly life and emotions. The speaker longs to be memorialized as having "emigrated to another star," symbolizing a departure from the ordinary human existence towards a higher, more ethereal realm, where pain and suffering no longer hold power over them.
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Epitaphs
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