Through a study of the poems Claire Philip wrote while dying of cancer, the author develops the hypothesis that in writing poems, a patient reveals thoughts and feelings that might not be evident in a clinical situation. The thoughts and feelings disclosed in Philip's poems are less about ...
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Early October 2016 to January 2017, was the hardest time ever in my life. In October we found out that my Grandpa had a very aggressive form of stage four brain cancer. We knew that there was something wrong but we never thought it would be that bad. For the next month, the doctors...
When my father was diagnosed with advanced, untreatable pancreatic cancer 11 weeks before his death, his immediate response was ‘So now would be a good time to buy a new car?” He bought a new car the next day, for my mother. The car she’d been using, the one with seats that wer...
The end of life can be desperately unfair as health fades, relationships sour or are broken, and parting can be agonizing. Yet if there is honesty about the negative feelings and reactions, there can be a positive outcome. Paula, a cancer patient still too young to be facing death, ...
John Keats (1795-1821) was a member of the second wave of British Romanticism. He was a poet, although he initially trained as a doctor. His most famous poems includeOde to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Hyperion, Endymion, Lamia, and the sonnetWhen I Have Fears That I May Cea...
and when I finished I turned to find one of the nurses standing in the doorway listening as well. It was a magical night for us all, giving us the gift of taking our minds off the present and reminding us all of the fun we had when my Dad would read these poems at the dinner tab...
Devastated by the loss of her beloved older brother to cancer, Bugz returns to the place where she can always find solace and strength: the Floraverse. Over the past year, she has gained back all that she had lost in that virtual world, and while the remaining ClanLess members still plot...
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The discussion proceeds through an exegesis of two books on loss—one, a book of poems written by Renato Rosaldo, years after the death of his wife, Michelle Rosaldo; and the second, on the women raped and rehabilitated as birongana s (war heroines) in the national imagery in post-war...