for Television, Anthology Original. The well-known poem, Epitaph, resonates with so many who have experienced loss, especially in this past year. The When I die poem talks about more than anything, we cannot forget those we have lost and must do our best to honor some of their memories....
When he cries, children die. He does not order their deaths, they are merely symptomatic of his power. The poem could very well have been structured in any number of ways. However, Auden chose an epitaph. The form suggests a respectability beyond death, regardless of the life lived, an ...
after the narrator of the poem visits the graves of other men and reads their epitaphs. Robert Frost’s real gravestone carries the final line “I had a lover’s quarrel with the world,” which has thus become
When I handed in my story, I explained to Debbie how I saved the account for her. She was thankful, but she now understood I knew the kind of markup she was making on my stories. That’s okay. It was business, and I had agreed to a low rate. There was no offer of a bonus fo...
The Saraval poem concludes with an allusion to the state of rest that fol-lows life. We have already examined the theme that people find repose whenlife’s struggles are past, but the Saraval text refers to a rest that is an objective,spiritual state, rather than merely the cessation of...
Gently I gather and treasure them all. Unseen, unheard, You are always near, So missed, so loved, so very dear. (from a poem by Colin Godon-Farleigh)See this epitaph on a headstone God could not have made earthly ties so strong to break them in eternity. ...
Though I, once gone, to all the world must die: The earth can yield me but a common grave, When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie. Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read, And tongues to be your being shall rehearse, ...
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"Epitaph on a Tyrant" Perfection of a kind, was what he was after, And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; He knew human folly like the back of his hand, And he was greatly interested in armies and fleets; When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when...