The reader is forced to see the other side of the usual thoughts of the living and the dead. Hadas is in fact showing the reader "the other hand", or the other side of the situation. He continues this approach in the first part of the third verse; recounting the ability that the dead have to "slip through the hours" without time being a boundary for them. The dead are in no hurry, instead living in "peaceful places, in unhurried silence". This all ties back to the first line of the poem, “No wonder why we love the dead,” which explains his reasons for worshiping the dead. However, as soon as the reader has adapted to this new view of things, he is shown the only downside of being dead. The last statement about the desperate wishes of the dead presents the reader with another turning point in his views. The last lines portray the dead as "desperate presences hammering at the doors", illustrating that the dead long for something. The reader tries to distinguish which are the "doors"; perhaps these doors are the doors of life. It would make sense that the dead, in their free, careless, and timeless existence, actually desire the happiness of being sociable and sociable.