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This poem by Stephen Crane tells the basic life of a man who, as i interpreted it, never enjoyed life. His life could never be erases, it was indeliable. I too would want to my life to be indeliable, but in a good way. This poem makes it seem like this man never lived life to the fullest, or at all for that matter, and that is no way to live at all. The last two lines confused me when it said, "Yet when he was dead, He saw that he had not lived." I am thinking that maybe this means when he was looking back on his life he realized he was not really living. 1205376307KCa

I agree with KCa. This man lived a life of fire that symbolizes the worthless and pointless times he endured through out his years. He basically lived out his life for nothing, like he was a waste of time for everybody. He probably never achieved anything in life, never made any friends, just an outsider. I guess you can say he had the lower value of an average person. He didn’t make any difference in life that people would recognize. He was invisible to everybody. The last two lines, “Yet when he was dead”,”He saw that he had not lived.” Explains that when he died, he didn’t notice that he ever lived because he didn’t do anything to achieve in his life, and it was a waste.1205459514