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the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The poem's speaker claims that some of the finest people end their own lives to escape, while those left behind struggle to grasp why anyone would want to leave them. The broken closing lines stress bewilderment and hurt, the survivors' sense of being what was fled.
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