A poem by mark slaughter-analysis for IGCSE preperation for student years 8-11 Theme is death, this is wht examiners what for your IGCSE response when you write about a poem.

2. Mark R Slaughter is a biological scientist
who took up poetry to challenge his
written skills. He like to develop his
work through experimentation. He also
undertook commissioned work. his
favourite poets are Rudyard Kipling and
Ted Hughes

3. It's Death again – He's always there –
Watching, waiting – e'er the stare!
Every time I look behind
Or reach to pull the window blind,
I catch a glimpse of grubby hood –
A little clue to where he stood;
The glint of light that caught the scythe.
Perhaps if I could pay a tithe…
But O! no use, he'll never go.
The adamant phantom; don't you know
He will but wait until it's time
For me to hear His fateful chime? –
The toll that claims my destiny,
To Hail: 'You're next, it has to be…'

4. This poem somehow has a cheerful despite its
topic. The persona seems to be fearful of
death as he/she is constantly on the
lookout for it. Death is expected at anytime
and you cannot avoid it, so there is no point
in trying to run from it, it will find you. It is
predicted that this person would desire fight
for it and doesn’t seem occupied by the
fact death is always there and keep away
from death because he/she seems like an
adventurous person given the tone of the
writing and the interpretation of the
characters movements.

5. The poem is about how death haunts the
persona every where they go.
The poem "It's Death Again.” It tells about how
death is always with him. Even though it
doesn't actually take him, when it's time he
will hear the ‘fateful chime.’ The poem
explains about how he can’t run or hide
from death, but when it is time then death
will come for him.
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6. It's Death again – He's always there –
Watching, waiting – e'er the stare!
This could indicate that the persona knows that death is
always there. The pause from the caesura gives the silent
effect where something bad could happen making the
reader wonder what could happen next.

7. Every time I look behind
Or reach to pull the window blind,
I catch a glimpse of grubby hood –
A little clue to where he stood;
The glint of light that caught the scythe.
The persona in the poem does not seem to be scared of
death, and however, seems to be expecting it. It seems like
a routine to them, everything the persona does, a glimpse of
death is to be seen.

8. Perhaps if I could pay a tithe…
But O! no use, he'll never go.
Slaughter expresses that Death is always in the back of his
mind, and its impending fate cannot be erased by wishes or
good deeds including giving a sum of money. Death is
constantly watching and waiting for the time to take the
persona.

9. The adamant phantom; don't you know
He will but wait until it's time
For me to hear His fateful chime? –
This poem indicates that immortality is an impossibility and
that accepting that death is coming regardless of how one
lives is necessary. Death seems to be unmoving ghost.

10. The toll that claims my destiny,
To Hail: 'You're next, it has to be…'
The victim seems to have no joy, and is just waiting for death
to come - instead of doing everything they could before his
time came.