Death tries to show how love lives only for a while and then dies buried in the human heart helpless against the law of earthly life.
At the Feet of The Mother
Canto II: The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal
Death mocks at the effort of human idealism to immortalise love that stays so briefly in the human heart.
Death denies any possibility of the Ideal ever being established upon earth.
The supreme Divine Reality is also described as the supreme Nothingness since nothing can define or describe it.
Death falsifies everything and corrupts all things with his breath. Even love is not spared.
Death tries to take away every support of hope from the human consciousness and his speech is directed towards this end.
In this realm of the Ideal world built by human thought as inspired by the light of the gods, Savitri must argue her case before Death.