In many poems throughout the anthology, we see a profound theme of the cycle between life and death. In On Going, there is the subtle link between ‘on going’ (‘going on’) and ‘ongoing’, furthermore reflecting the progression of life to death.
On Going consists of four quintet stanzas. It is dedicated to Sheers’ grandmother, and is about her death as she refuses the help of medical machines which may, or may not have, prolonged her life. In the first two stanzas, Sheers writes about the machines in, presumably, a hospital his grandmother lies. He then describes the way she looks and her breathing. The following two stanzas express Sheer’s want of perhaps saying goodbye to his grandmother, her realisation of who he is for half-a-second as he kissed her forehead and the disengagement of her eyes as she slips back into slumber.
Sheers begins the first stanza describing the…
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