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I saw a FB post about this short poem, and I liked it. It seemed like a war cry.
“Once more into the fray, Into the last good fight I’ll ever know. Live and die on this day, live and die on this day.”
Where did it come from, and what does it exactly mean?
That poem is from the 2011 movie, The Grey.
Spoilers ahead (I’ll try to be really vague in case you want to watch the movie – which I recommend)
Basically, the main character, John Ottway, almost gives up on his life at the start of the story but doesn’t.
He continuously struggled with finding a purpose to keep living while suffering just trying to survive day by day in a dangerous environment.
At the end of his story, he finds the courage to fight for his life once more – literally, he tried to fight an Alpha wolf, and that poem was his battle cry.
On that fight he lived to the fullest and ironically dies, thus the line “Live and die on this day.”
By definition, the noun “fray” means “a battle or fight,” and that’s exactly what that phrase means. It basically means to go and fight a battle.