Equality - “How from between my hands you slip away”
Death aligns all human beings. Quevedo writes, “What muted steps you take, /frigid death,/When with your silent feet you/ make all equal.” Death does not accord any human being a partisan treatment. Therefore, all humans should anticipate death for it is an ever-present certainty.
Time - “All these are swept away in one year”
An assertion that “All these are swept away in one year” validates the intersection between time and impermanence. The sweeping thrusts an individual nearer to his or her demise. Mortality is, indeed, not satisfactorily robust to counterattack the sweeping repercussions of time.
