A Troubadour-youth I rambled
With Life for lyre,
The beats of being raging
In me like fire.
But when I practised eyeing
The goal of men,
It iced me, and I perished
A little then.
When passed my friend, my kinsfolk,
Through the Last Door,
And left me standing bleakly,
I died yet more;
And when my Love's heart kindled
In hate of me,
Wherefore I knew not, died I
One more degree.
And if when I died fully
I cannot say,
And changed into the corpse-thing
I am to-day,
Yet is it that, though whiling
The time somehow
In walking, talking, smiling,
I live not now.
Like many of his novels, with Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure springing first and foremost to mind, this poem sounds tragic and irresistibly beautiful.
Anyways, “dead man walking” is a popular idiom, very popular, describing situations where a man, or a project for that matter, is doomed to fail or lose something, either life itself or something as trivial as, say, a job.
Here are a few recent media examples:
1. A former plastic surgery nurse has revealed details of Michael Jackson’s drug addictions, reports The Sun.
Kathryn Buschelle, who was also a long-term partner of one of Michael’s surgeons, has alleged that Jackson became addicted to the intravenous anesthetic propofol (Diprivan), which he first took to relieve the pain of continuous skin lightening treatments: “Michael’s obsession with his appearance led to more and more skin treatments and his subsequent addiction to Diprivan led to even more,” says Buschelle. “It was an insane cycle. “He was literally burning his skin off and then being knocked out like a zombie. It reads like a horror movie script. Towards the end of the ’90s he was a dead man walking, that’s how zoned out he was.”
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