poems, and essays about the other realms, of the ends we face here, and the beginnings we find elsewhere. It is an adventure into the unknown, to meet those who live there still, even though they may be dead. Death is a journey we all will take, but we’d like to peek at the m...
However, Heidegger highlighted the challenges of speaking authentically about death in such a way as to raise the further question as to the nature or capacity of language. For Herder, language imitates nature and poetry is the supreme expression of language. How this might work in relation to ...
The dead guy’s band, which had recently traveled around the country and played a series of uninspiring concerts in front of people waiting for someone else to play, will try to soldier on without him. In spite of their sadness about his death they have been somewhat consoled by a 15 pe...
The sequence ‘Poems of 1912–13’, occasioned by the death of Hardy’s first wife and published inSatires of Circumstance, moves, it seems, without a trace of theorising, close to the centre of poetry, to its sources and its meanings. A small surprise occurs, or occurred for me, in t...
- One of Emily Dickinson's most famous poems is "Because I could not stop for Death." 艾米莉·狄金森最著名的诗之一是《因为我不能停下来迎接死亡》。 - The poetry of the Romantic period is known for its emphasis on emotion and natural beauty. 浪漫主义时期的诗歌以情感和自然之美为主要特征。
However, there is a content requirement: Elegies are about death. Generally, elegies are reflective and written to mourn an individual or group. They also frequently end with lines about hope and redemption. Elegies originated in ancient Greece, and over time, they morphed into the mourning ...
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It includes what are probably the earliest forms of this verse—panegyrics praising a hero’s lineage and deeds, and laments on a hero’s death. Homer relates that when Hector’s body was brought home “they laid it upon the bed and seated minstrels round it to lead the dirge.” ...
The ancient Greeks devoted a significant portion of their poetic and artistic energy to exploring themes of death. Vermeule examines the facts and fictions of Greek death, including burial and mourning, visions of the underworld, souls and ghosts, the va