Transmigration (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Brendan Galvin
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Work: Narrative
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: Immortality, Reincarnation, Theology, Cemeteries
The Poem
“Transmigration” is a mid-length narrative poem with irregular stanza lengths and meter. The poem’s title suggests the transmigration of the soul, the theological idea that after death one’s soul migrates to exist in another creature, human or animal. In the case of Brendan Galvin’s poem, the transmigration referred to is of a middle-aged man who jogs to lose a paunch gained from overeating. The jogger has “sat out easy rains” and has not worked very hard at becoming healthier. Ironically, instead of becoming healthier, he dies on the beach, and his soul...
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