Defineing "The Indian Burying Ground"
...uote thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth line describes the delusions of this person and illogical thinking with the person thinking that this dead person is still alive. The conflict comes directly afterwards in the thirty-nine and fortieth lines as Reason’s self comes to the understanding that all the things that were thought to be there were actually just delusions. The conflict plays back and forth in the entire poem starting with the first line when the speaker said, “In spite of all the learned have said, / I still my old opinion keep; / the posture, that we give the dead, / Points out the soul’s eternal sleep.” Even though this person has heard or been told different still their opinion is keep. The rest of the poem is the delusions of an Indian and his life after death. The speaker describes the way they sit...