“I Shall Not See the Shadows” is based on Christina Rossetti's poem “When I Am Dead My Dearest”. It portrays death at its most indifferent--unnoticed, unheralded, unremembered. It also suggests that forgetting is a form of extinction, too--that the finality of species lies not in the death of its last remaining members, but in the failure to preserve their memory.

Publisher

Boosey & Hawkes

Binding

Octavo

Pages

16

ISBN

9781705189429

Stock code

48025204

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