my father moved through dooms of love Death Quotes

Here we get the idea that the speaker believes in some kind of afterlife, or at least that his father does, because he describes his father moving towards his "immortal work." This definitely seems to get across the idea that there's something to be done after we die. What's interesting is that, in the next line, the speaker calls death "the dark." That doesn't sound much like a pleasant afterlife to us. In fact, it reminds us much more of atheistic philosophies that say there's nothing after we die. Which idea of what happens after we die do you think the poem is trying to get across?

These lines summon the specter of war and violence into the poem. It makes us imagine bloody bodies piling up in the muck. (Thanks for planting that image in our heads, E.E.) In the context of the poem, though, these images seem to represent the violent world the speaker's father is leaving behind as he heads into death. So, despite the graphic imagery, we wonder if this is showing death as a good thing, a final reward that takes us to a better place.

We get some pretty dark death imagery here, with "maggoty minus" summoning the idea of rotting corpses and the hole that's left in people's lives after someone has passed on, and "dumb death" bringing to mind the eternal silence that death brings. The line also reminds us that we're all doomed to die. Yay. We inherited our mortality from our parents and we'll pass it on to our kids. It's just part of being human. What's up, E.E.? Is there a silver lining?