Poems Of Graveyard (shelley,gray Unamuno)

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6) remarks the idea of regrowth, describing himself as an enquiring child who opens his eyes to a new world.
Maybe also in life we also meet our dead ancestors, as one of Becquer best known rhymes says, blurring again the border between life and death.
“¿Será verdad que cuando toca el sueño / con sus dedos de rosa nuestros ojos / de la cárcel que habita huye el espíritu / en vuelo presuroso
/ ¿será verdad que huésped de las nieblas, / de la brisa nocturna al tenue soplo, / alado sube a la región vacía / a encontrarse con otros?
/ ¿Y allí los desnudo de la humana forma, / allí los lazos terrenales rotos, / breves horas habita de la idea / el mundo silencioso? (...)”
(Béquer, Rimas y Leyendas, LXXV p.165, l. 1-12)
This oniric vision of life and death is shared by all romantics and most of the poets.
Unamuno´s point of view about death has less of a myth and more of scathological in both sides of the word (adj. Relativo a las postrimerías de ultratumba/ Referente a los excrementos y suciedades, Diccionario P&J vol IV) when he compares a graveyard with a typical farmyard from Castilla. That is the difference of perspective between a believer (Shelley or Gray) and the howl of an agnosticist (Unamuno). For him, death is a gravestone over everyone´s head that we carry since our birth.
”Solo una cruz, en el desierto campo
Señala tu destino”
(En un cementerio de ...