Imagine a death of someone significant. In “Before She Died” by Karen Chase, she reminisces on a dear person who has passed away. The importance of one is not known until he or she has deceased. The speaker is constantly reminded of the dead person. For example, when the speaker searches for the one who died, “When I look at the sky now, I look at it for you” (1). The speaker relates sky to heaven after his or her loved one died. When the speaker says “I look at it for you” that indicates he or she is trying to find the presence of the that person in heaven. Furthermore, when the speaker keeps having thoughts on the dead person, “I wondered how finite these lustered days seem to you” (7). The days are “finite” to dead people. The speaker
