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In the poem, he imagines lying down in a cradle with the family ghosts, "buffeted by the storm, endlessly drifting".
Death is "endlessly drifting" on the stormy seas "with the family ghosts". This should be a sort of hell, but Kunitz perfectly imagines the relief of relinquishing perhaps our greatest burden, our "name-tag" and the cumbersome relationships we have with ourselves.
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The peaceniks who swarmed around "The Lord of the Rings," twenty years after the war, got the wrong end of the sword; peace is not something into which you endlessly drift but a tenuous blessing that you snap out of when the time demands.
A large share of the nation, certainly of the white South, would have drifted endlessly in a legal limbo.
After that, the two craft will drift endlessly among the stars of our galaxy unless someone or something encounters them someday.
The German writer W.G. Sebald titled a novel after the rings of Saturn, which look orderly and elegant from far away but are in reality the detritus of some immense catastrophe -- shards from an act of violence that continue to drift endlessly through time.
Barges drifting along the river offer an endlessly shifting vista.
Or they may just be drifting, like the rest of us, on the endlessly streaming existential flux of modern experience.
Quit drifting.
These things can drift on and on, endlessly.
Yet he has only to be peering through round hornrimmed glasses, as Shepherd reads the words "But above the grey land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg," and the words and action are united.
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