This article is a consideration of the dynamic images of death in the work of French poet Olivier Larronde. Singularly gloomy images figure simultaneously in his life and work and give rise to a true “march to death”. In his writing, the thoughts and images inspired by death help set the stage for the end of his own life. From one poem to the next, death is transcribed in poetic form. The poetic universe of this thinking reflects an analysis of the images of death and reveals the march to death as the internal echo of his imaginings. This imaginative world is a projection of the fundamentally melancholy consciousness that runs through Larronde’s poems.