What shall I do with this body they gave me
Read 'What shall I do with this body they gave me' by 'Osip Mandelstam' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.
What shall I do with this body they gave me by Osip Mandelstam
What shall I do with this body they gave me,
so much my own, so intimate with me?
For being alive, for the joy of calm breath,
tell me, who should I bless?
I am the flower, and the gardener as well,
and am not solitary, in earth’s cell.
My living warmth, exhaled, you can see,
on the clear glass of eternity.
A pattern set down,
until now, unknown.
Breath evaporates without trace,
but form no one can deface.
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