I feel the poem is talking about how cultures either deal well with death or look at it as a disasterous horrible thing. In the poem it states " the cliff shall rise or subside until the plate of earth is without fissure.(ryan)" I think this is stating the different ways culture handles death. When someone dies we find it sad and if we are close to the person we morn and it is hard for us to look past the dying part, the fact that they are no longer in the world with us. We see them as being out of reach from ourselves, and think about how we will never see them in this life before. What most people forget or look past during these hard times, given their religion is that they have a chance to see this person again some day. There is always a way to think about the posatives of dying, and in my religion it is based on how the person lived their life. My grandmother recently passed away, and it broke my heart into. She was the most loving, caring, happy, religious woman I have ever known, and just knowing she went to Heaven made her death easier. I'm not saying I was not sad, but knowing that I will one day see her again and that she is with the Lord rejoicing and all her pain and sarrows are gone, it makes my heart happy. I will admit I am selfish at times and that sometimes I wish she were still here, because she was always there for me, no matter what and now with her gone I find it hard, because I will have a problem and go to call her then remember I cannot do this. I think that the poem is saying that even though people die, life still goes on, the world still revolves, and will not stop because people have left it. So if someone close to you dies, remember this, and even though it will be one of the hardest things to do, remember them and think of what they would have wanted for you. Sometimes people are in denial, and live life like nothing has happened, this I feel is one of the worst things to do, in any situation for that matter. To ignore something completely will only make it worse when true realization comes about. It is not healthy and in the long wrong will not make things any easier than before. The poem is insisting that even though souls have gone it is a cycle of life, people will leave, things will change, but this will change nothing given the world view. Everyday babies are born, and for every death there is life. I think this is what "All shall be restored(Ryan)" is getting at, that death is natural and even though it is hard to deal with or even understand why it happens, but for death there is life. I think a lot of people have a life change after a death, I have seen and experienced this myself, and I beleive it is because they realize that life is too short, and even though they may have known before hand, death is like an eye opener.