The Power and the Glory Concrete Poem

Part of an English assignment:

Replaced by Death, Hope is Gone

I've had enough of escaping. (p190)
All the hope of the world draining away. (113)
I would rather die (p28)
But we have to go on living. (p28)

Then, in his innocence, he had felt no love for anyone (p139)
There was so much treason everywhere,
it was like petty larceny in a barracks. (p35)
Burdened with a sin of such magnitude. (p184)
Ready to accept any responsibility, even that of vengeance,
Without a second thought. (p42)

Penalties of the ecclesiastical kind
began to seem unreal in a state where the only penalty
was the civil one of death. (p60)
He had tried to escape (p19)
There wasn't much merit (p190)
Let me be caught soon... let me be caught. (p19)
Wouldn't it be worth it? (p24)

Fear and death were not the worst things.
It was sometimes a mistake for life to go on. (p169)
It would be better to eliminate this beast, now, at this instant, for ever. (p193)
He felt without a purpose, as if life had drained out of the world. (p207)
Then there was a single shot (p216)
It was the morning of his death. (p210)

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