“so death swings open on its hinge” [closed]

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Answer 1

Thanks for including the link. Here is the whole stanza:

the hour it took for you
to make a ring of grass and marry me. I say your name
again. It is a key, unlocking all the dark,
so death swings open on its hinge.

I hear a bird being its song,
piercing the hour, to bring first light this Christmas dawn,
a gift, the blush of memory.

For what it's worth: the narrator says "your" name, the name becomes a "key" to open "the dark," itself a metaphor for death, probably the lamented death of "you."

When "death swings open on its hinge" the narrator receives "a gift, the blush of memory" i.e. the memory of "you."

In other words, "death swings open on its hinge" means in this case alone, the unlocking of the memory of the "you" addressed in the poem. You wouldn't want to generalize from this to any other context, however, unless you were quoting the poem in some relevant circumstance!

Answer 2

It appears to be a metaphor, where death is a coffin, and that coffin opens up to release, --I'm presuming -- the author's beloved.