MacNeice, Louis. "The Suicide".

Summary

- the speaker conducts his audience in the office of a late clerk

- points out the things he left behind at his working place: bills, letters, memoranda, etc.

- claims this seemingly unimportant man had left behind him "Something that was intact"

Analysis

- melodic: irregularly yet skilfully rhymed, internal rhymes, regular poetic line

- appreciation of an/each individual human life: shows the audience through the office as if it was a museum with precious relics left behind by some great personality

- the deadening routine of office work: the man committed suicide by jumping out off the window in his office; left heaps of work at his table