Blog 10: Many Death's

As part of our discussion in our groups today. the line "and not one death would come to each and every one, but many deaths"  from section III came up. I was trying to explain what I thought it meant and (as my group members can attest to) I was struggling hard core to make sense of my thoughts. So please bear with me as I try to figure it out here. I saw two different interpretations. The first one I came up with was that every person dies a little every day that they are not living the best quality of life they can. The line "from eight to four or nine to five" represented a work day for me and the mention of the many deaths following this line lent my to believe that it was the thoughtless repetition that was slowing killing each and every one of us. But then today when the question was posed concerning the shift from a self-centered individual to a communal society, Alex pointed out that if everyone is stuck in the repetition, then are they not moving as a group, which makes a lot of sense. I think we all agreed in class that the poem shifts from the negative, individual base to a more community one, so my previous theory is flawed. This lends me to believe that there has to be a second option for interpretation. Perhaps, instead of looking at the problem as each individual dying a little bit, it would be more appropriate to view it as the society as a whole. Every day more and more people die but they die by themselves, individually of one another. This makes more sense if the one true death mentioned later is referencing the disappearance of the of the people of Machu Pichu. So those are the two theories I have come up with. I am definitely aware that they are flawed so if anyone has any more thoughts on the subject I would love to hear them. Thanks!