It's long been one of my two favorite poems, I've heard about this theme of death, and I don't see it. To me, the poem is about the tension between the ephemera

It's long been one of my two favorite poems, I've heard about this theme of death, and I don't see it. To me, the poem is about the tension between the ephemera of human lives and the permanence of nature... The poem starts with a reference to private land ownership, a decidedly human way of imposing order in the world, and one that will vanish with our society, and ends with a return to human responsibilities. The middle of the poem is a brief escape to the permanence of the earth, the woods that were there before the humans and will be there after the humans.