the meaning of the poem is that no one can expect death as it appears in our lives and we have to accept that as human beings we should only focus on the present time and not dwell on the future such...
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the gardener encounters death
alliteration, allusion, antagonist, characterization, conflict, connotation, denotation, figure-of-speech, flashback, foreshadowing, hyperbole, imagery,irony, metaphor, oxymoron, personification,...
Death is unexpected.