Mourning The Death Of A Best Friend Why is the world still spinning? Doesn't it know you're gone? It's an end or some kind of beginning But for everyone else life goes on Read Complete Poem Stories1 Shares238 Favorited13 Votes55 ...
not a famous-last-words ... Read Poem Nothing But DeathPablo Neruda There are cemeteries that are lonely, graves full of bones that do not make a sound, the heart moving through a tunnel, in it darkness, darkness, darkness, ...
Frost would later state of the poem, “You have to be careful of that one; it’s a tricky poem – very tricky” (Letters xiv-xv). Frost also called the poem his “private jest“. You see, Frost was well aware that people would misunderstand “The Road Not Taken”. He experienced t...
Here’s another example of a poem well-suited to a gravestone—as well as to a heartfelt eulogy. Burns offers a simple, warm tribute to a beloved soul that “made the best of this” life, given the opportunities he had. He recognized and extolled the man’svirtuesin life andexpressed ...
They go skyping, fly over the North Pole, visit the Taj Mahal and ride motorycles on the Great Wall of China.As they come back home, Carter has a ___ time with his family and ___ the importance of having a close relationship with them. However, the cancer has ___ Carter’s brain...
This poem is often read at funerals. The author, Henry Scott-Holland (1847 - 1918), a priest at St. Paul's Cathedral of London, did not intend it as a poem, it was actually delivered as part of a sermon in 1910. The sermon, titled, Death the King of Ter
Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them. ~ Edgar Allan Poe ~ If indeed there's life after death, I sure will still be a poet. ~ Solomon Sakyi ~ You squat with a friend and eat You cry with a friend in pain You push an enemy to death And you curse a friend...
24. “This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.”–William Shakespeare 25. “Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.”― Hans Christian Andersen 26. “Tolive in the heartswe leave behind is not to die.”– ...
Death as a friend!Rupert Brooke—Second Best. Oh! death will find me, long before I tireOf watching you; and swing me suddenlyInto the shade and loneliness and mireOf the last land!Rupert Brooke—Sonnet. (Collection 1908–1911). Pliny hath an odd and remarkable Passage concerning the ...
The poem’s imagery is very simple. A small bundle of cut flowers, already starting to wither by midday, becomes, through the poet’s act of sustained attention, a metaphor for his own mortality. The materiality of the flowers—which the reader is enabled by the text to see, smell, and...