The ranks opened covertly to avoid the corpse. The invulnerable dead man forced a way for himself. The youth looked keenly at the ashen face. The wind raised the tawny beard. It moved as if a hand were stroking it. He vaguely desired to walk around and around the body and stare Anonymous
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In the poem, “The ranks opened covertly to avoid the corpse” by Robert Burns, he has a reference to a poem by William Wordsworth. In the poem, “The Invulnerable Dead Man forced a way for himself.” At the end of his life, Wordsworth was a famous poet. He is a literary inspiration for many people. In this poem, he talks about how after his friend William Wordsworth's death, his friend's body was involuntarily moved. The place where Wordsworth was buried was not visible to anyone so after his friends died, they wanted to avoid any kind of scandal.

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