An elegy is written for or about someone who has died, such as "An Elegy for Five Old Ladies" by Thomas James Merton. An epigram, is a poem that is meant to be funny or satirical. See if you can catch the punch line in Stephen Crane's "A Man Said to the Universe." An aubade...
So for them to move to Elkhead, Colo. to instruct the children whose shoes were held together with string was a surprise. Their stay in Elkhead is the subject of Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden, who is a magazine editor ...
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Here we see the subject of last week’s elegy writing an elegy of his own for one of his students who died after a fall from a horse, Theodore Roethke having been a notable teacher of the young. It is a poem that walks the edge both of feeling and expression, yet in the end trium...
And someone playing the oud along a clear stream. But now it was “My country ’tis of thee” And I sang it out with all my heart… “Land where my fathers died,” I bellowed, And it was not too hard to imagine A host of my great uncles and -grandfathers ...
A shortpoemwritten about someone who has died, often inscribed on the headstone of their grave. Epitaphs usually praise the person, and are sometimes humorous. SeeHow to Write a Funny Epitaph Poem. Exaggeration To overstate something; to claim that it is bigger, better, faster,...
did.” It’s the nightmare of “Nothing New” come true — people forget about yesterday’s ingenue. But this isn’t merely a song about show-biz. It’s about any adult who wonders why — after all these years — she still feels pain or terror when someone else lights up the room....
went out for a pizza and came home and found his wife dead on the living room floor; or John who snapped his briefcase open and shut before going into class, and I know Susan remembers that snap and learned as I did he died in his sleep. ...