If We Must Die

according to the speaker, how should a person face death?explain your answer in detail

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Death is the poem's main theme, invoked in the title, the first and last line, and many times in between. Indeed, the sense of impending death is the poem's sine qua non, and while the speaker clearly has no morbid desire for death for death's sake, he acknowledges death without hesitation, encouraging his allies not just to face death but to deliver it to their "common foe." If in this vision there are thus no alternatives to death, there is nevertheless a right and wrong way to die. The speaker spends his 14 lines advocating for a noble death that will allow the dead to live on through their glory, and his rhyme on "die/defy" importantly suggests that a valiant death is not an acquiescence but a defiance.