Both Uses of
mortality
in
Leaves of Grass
- I will make the poems of materials, for I think they are to be the most spiritual poems, And I will make the poems of my body and of mortality, For I think I shall then supply myself with the poems of my soul and of immortality.†
Chpt 2
- 49 And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.†
Chpt 3 *
Definition:
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(mortality) the quality of being mortal (subject to death)
or:
death rate -- often given per 1,000 people per year