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'The Burial of the Dead' refers to the Anglican service of burial found in the liturgical book which Eliot possessed. It might seem puzzling to start a poem with death, but the world was still in shock from World War I and its attendant mass destruction, so it must have been uppermost ...
The artist Francis Bacon’s description of this soul-death was even more visceral, saying ‘the shadow of dead meat is cast as soon as we are born’. In another quote from R.D. Laing, he also pointed out that ‘To adapt to this world the child abdicates its ecstasy.’ In the 1993...
I didn’t cry on my mother’s death. I felt nothing at all, and now? I feel like I have no heart. There’s no love greater than the love of a mother and her child. I’m writing this with tears flowing down as I am so hurt from the inside. Oh, Mom! You have been the ...
As to what this act of Nature is, well, the reader is again challenged. The language suggests that the speaker has a close partner, a lover, a wife, a husband, a friend - so this natural act could be anything from death to conception. ...