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The New Zealand poet Allen Curnow published “You Will Know When You Get There” in 1982, including it in his collection of the same name. In the poem, a person walks down a steep slope into the ocean as daylight fades.
You Will Know When You Get There is from Curnow’s 1982 collection of the same name, full of poems describing memories of his youth and family. One critic wrote in an obituary (Curnow died in 2001 at age 90) that this book was best known for dealing with “a creeping sense of the nearness of death.”
‘You Will Know When You Get There’ by Allen Curnow illustrates a desire to make peace with death as opposed to viewing it as an adversary that must be feared or evaded. The poem begins with the speaker describing how no one, no matter who they are, goes to the sea before or after their time.
Metaphorically, you will know when you reach the end of life. Rhyme scheme: free verse, which shows the unpredictability of nature. The internal rhyme and symmetric meter shows the predictability of nature.
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