Meseems I feel his presence. Is he dead? Death is a word. He lives and grander grows.

The speaker rejects the finality implied by the word “death,” insisting that the deceased remains vividly present—felt rather than merely remembered. The line “Death is a word” treats mortality as a linguistic label that fails to capture the continuing force of a person’s influence, spirit, or legacy. “He lives and grander grows” suggests an afterlife in memory, art, or moral example: the dead can become larger than life as grief refines recollection and as time elevates reputation. The passage thus turns elegy into affirmation, shifting from doubt (“Is he dead?”) to a conviction that presence and meaning persist beyond physical absence.