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Death Escaped Poetry explores the human condition, and the only universal reality is death. Not everyone falls in love, or succeeds, but everyone faces the same conclusion, death. However, each person’s final chapter is unique. In exploring the three poems, London, Stopping by Woods, and My Last Duchess, the different circumstances of each show distinct facets of the common underlying thread of death. “London” by William Blake writes about the suffering of the people, and how it affects the observer.