There he was, knowing he was going to die, probably very unhappy with karma, but he believed that, despite his death, there was still life in trouble. That the silence and the distress he felt proved that he was alive. For him, its “winter flowers on withered stems” and its “snippets of renewal” were proof that all around him there was life in death. Lawrence rested his faith in this unknown God, believing that he would be resurrected into a new life. As I continued reading, I noticed that each stanza was one continuous sentence. He cried out for death. “And if, as autumn deepens and darkens / I feel the pain of falling leaves and breaking stems in storms / and troubles, dissolution and distress…” Highlighting the process slow and agonizing decay that the speaker felt as he fell into the illness and misery of an old man. The first two stanzas – which focused on the loss of life – ended with a period, but by the time I reached the third and fourth stanzas, both encouraged the continuation of sentences with a colon and a dash. But it was a continuation from loss to new life. His tone shifted the moment the speaker admitted to being dead. The first two stanzas seemed to finalize the death, but with the change in tone, Lawrence implies that there is