In the first stanza of James Russell Lowell's life is :words
C. The noun or pronoun that identifies the person, place, or thing that the sentence is about.
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I'm not sure but it gives more of an effect. I'm sorry
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I believe he means that in the Caribbean people died so young that he imagines it so often. He thinks he needs to make any happy/good moment last so he remembers that.
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