For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.
The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.

