When you were slept, and then "911" took place; when you are watched movie, and then Si chuan earthquake was happened ; when your grandpa have already dead, and then you smell his smelling, how do you think about this? Fear? Scary? Strange? If the catastrophy happened in a place that's you almost never notice, will you feel sad for long time, or do something for them? If there is a thing happened impossible, will you worried about it, or feel pround of it, because that's only happened to you?
"Beyound the Snow Belt" that's a poem talk about a village, the people here always dead. But his own village is peace, their childen still playing happy. "whil shouting children hurry back to play", I think they not really feel the shouting, the thing over there is none of their business."I only say, except as we have loved, all news arrives as from a distant land." though the news was arrived there brain, but the pain never go into their heart. I think the author Mary Oliver is ignore death, maybe she has already accustomed it, when she heard that, maybe she just a kid, how a kid know the real meaning of death.
I think "The Shoemaker" is prove that kid don't know death. "During the night my shoes had been repaired by the little shoemaker with the clubfoot" author Roch Carrier pround of it, he don't scared. That's his childhood, child like illusion, and the picture in their mind of live is wonderful, so they eager it happen to himself. In the buttom of the story, "In the next life", he thought there is another life after people dead, so he don't afraid even ignore it.
Both of them don't care about death, their live are good, maybe death is not happen to him, or the people he love very much. But the different between them is Mary is adult, her mind must more maturity, Roch just a kid, he won't think to much, and kid always enjoy their dream.
In conclusion, though death is free, but it is exchanged by a alive. No matter whose live over, we should give some warm to them, let them feel there are much people love them, when he come to world is lonely, but when he live, he take away much love.