Juxtaposed with crass advertisements and thoughtless construction projects, a monument to Colonel Shaw and the 54th Regiment (a famous regiment of Black soldiers who fought for the Union in the Civil War) makes the speaker feel as if the U.S. has lost something important: the kind of principle...
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An epitaph is a short lyric written in memory of someone who has died. Sometimes, epitaphs serve as elegies.These tributes are usually quite brief and may be written by anyone. The writer might be someone close to the deceased, like a family member, or even the deceased themselves. There...
Since an “elegy” is a poem written to lament someone’s death, the poem's title signals its themes right away. This elegy, it becomes clear soon enough, is for everyone who is buried in the “Country Churchyard,” the graveyard attached to a rural church. It’s also for everyone who...
Dearest friends, this poem has long been a favorite of mine. I have shared it with many who have grieved for a lost family member, lover, or friend. Now I find great comfort in these words, and I read them again and again through my tears. This poem gives me back the hope that sh...
The rapper was recently questioned for his video for “Eazy,” which depicts a claymation version of actor and comedian Pete Davidson, who is currently in a relationship with West’s ex-wife Kardashian, being kidnapped and buried alive. In the song, West, who survived a car crash in 2002,...
You should have died at the apples’ dropping, When the grasshopper comes to trouble, And the wheat-fields are sodden stubble, And all winds go sighing For sweet things dying. Using symbolism, the poet crafts a poem about life and death. The poem can apply to any family member or friend...
16. who talked continuously... Ruth Goldenburg, a young Jewish woman Ginsberg knew from the San Remo bar is said to have talked non-stop for 72 hours one time (possibly high on speed?) but unfortunately ended up in Bellevue, a mental hospital. 17...
at night so that no one could see, and made him sit in the backseat of the car.She then went back home, now seeing herself as a woman who married a greedy idiot who wanted gold.The speaker visited her husband off and on for a while,parking the car well away from where he was an...
19I feel for them a transport 20Of Cordiality 21But never met this Fellow 22Attended or alone 23Without a tighter Breathing 24And Zero at the Bone. “A narrow Fellow in the Grass” Summary The speaker introduces a skinny gentleman who travels through the grass, and suggests that the reader...