I want to focus on how this reading of the line from the poem differs in meaning from the other versions of the same line with different punctuation (i.e. Vivian's final lines and the Westmoreland manuscript source). The major difference that has already been pointed out is that the semicolon gives a break between death and what comes after. However, one thing that the text doesn't point out is the exclamation point making this line read like a challenge to death. Instead of this line reading as if it was merely stating a fact, as it does in the Westmoreland manuscript source, the speaker seems to challenge Death, who I think is the personification while death is the concept of, at his own game. The one difference that occurs between this reading of the line and Vivian's last lines is the absence of the comma following Death in the second line. I don't know what significance that has on the reading of the poetry but I though I should point that out.