I thought that I could then use this to add to my ideas. To gain a better understanding of the sonnet, I decided to analyse it and pick out the important features. It has severed to comfort not only the young girl it was originally written for but also to every reader who has lost a loved one. In 1939, the US Congress published the poem for the United Spanish War Veterans Memorial Service - it resonated with every reader who had lost a loved one. When her mother died, Schwarzkopf told Frye that she was sad that she could not go to her mother's grave which then prompted Frye to write the poem. Schwarzkopf had been told not to return to Germany because of the increasing unrest (especially against Jewish communities). She was worried about her mother who lived back in Germany.
She wrote the poem in 1932 specifically for a young German Jewish girl (Margaret Schwarzkopf) who lived with Frye. If I took money for it, it would lose its value. I still feel that way … it was written out of love, for comfort.
Frye never copyrighted the sonnet as she said it belonged to the world: "I thought it belonged to the world it didn't belong to me. The sonnet remained anonymous until the late 90's when Frye claimed authorship Did write other poetry but never published Known for the single poem - Do not stand at my grave and weep
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