The Cobweb | Themes
Mortality
Many writers and artists often claim that their work can give them a kind of immortality. The poems in Ultramarine, written in a short period of time, just a few years before Carver’s own death, all evoke the speaker’s awareness of his inevitable death. There’s nothing subtle about this awareness in “The Cobweb.” Human beings die. Everyone knows this. What is startling, however, is the suddenness with which the speaker acknowledges his own impending death, after what seems an innocent description of a rather mundane experience with a cobweb. When...
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