Conflict between doubt and faith looms large in "The last Night that She lived" (1100), perhaps Emily Dickinson's most powerful death scene. The poem is written in second-person plural to emphasize the physical presence and the shared emotions of the witnesses at a death-bed. The past ...
While in San Francisco Halpin Frayser was walking one dark night along the water front of the city, when, with a suddenness that surprised and disconcerted him, he became a sailor. He was in fact “shanghaied” aboard a gallant, gallant ship, and sailed for a far countree. Nor did his ...
over a period of 15+ years, there has been a series of “disappearances”: the population wakes up some days with a shared sense of loss, that something from their familiar lives has ceased to exist, has been erased.
Vague news has been received in Boston from Sydney [Kikane] simply explaining that the schooner Hiram Bingham was smashed and sunk in the deep along with the death of its captain, the Rev. A. C. Walkup with the ship. As for where the ship was smashed and sunk and the reason for it...
bankrolled the cause. His untimely death at thirty-six, in Missolonghi in April 1824, contributed renewed international interest in the struggle. Another key philhellenenist was Percy Bysshe Shelley, who in the preface to his 1821 poem “Hellas,” captured the movement’s romanticism, or ...
Mind the gaps that may suck you in, or pay you well, because killing for a cause is killing still. Emily XYZ NaPoWriMo 2024, Day 19, The Burden of Truth My poem today was to be about something that “haunts” me. Fair enough. ...
For what it’s worth here is a little poem I wrote on my phone as I lay on my back in my sick bed in my little cubicle. Thinking about… I don’t know, just thinking, making stuff up. Every breath is a moment in time
(Wu & Yu, 2012, vol. 1, p. 128). And inchapter 51, another demon uses a powerful treasure stolen from heaven to take away Monkey’s staff, leading the latter to challenge the monster to unarmed combat to show that he isn’t useless without his weapon. A poem describing the ...
they were always laughing and singing together. All this rapidly changed when Virginia became sick, she was later diagnosed with tuberculosis. Tuberculosis was a well known disease to Poe, as many of his loved ones died from tuberculosis, so he knew that his love would not live for long. Up...
Clark seemed to repudiate part of these accusations in a revealing interview he gave in 1985, where he spoke for the first time about the civil war as being “one of the loneliest periods of my life.” Of the poem specifically, he said that, “I was crying there about the bodies that...