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A possible source for the poem is John Wilson's "Extracts from Gosschen's Diary", a lurid account of a murder published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1818. Browning's friend and fellow poet Bryan Procter acknowledged basing his 1820 "Marcian Colonna" on this source, but added a new detail; after the murder, the killer sits up all night with his ...
Parricide or parenticide – the killing of one's mother, father, or other close relative. Patricide – the act of killing of one's father. (Latin: pater "father"). Senicide – the killing of one's elderly family members. (Latin: senex "old man"). Siblicide – the killing of an infant individual by their close relatives (full or half siblings).
A page from the poem with Stalin's authograph. On September 11, 1931, Gorky read the poem to his visitors Joseph Stalin, Kliment Voroshilov and Vyacheslav Molotov.On that same day Stalin left his autograph on the last page of the poem: "This piece is stronger than Goethe's Faust (love defeats death)". [1]
Matthew Hertgen’s mugshot, released Tuesday, showed the hairy-faced murder suspect with a thousand-yard stare painted on his face after being accused of fratricide — in this case, killing 26 ...
Education for Leisure" is a poem by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy which explores the mind of a person who is planning to commit a murder. [1] Until 2008 the poem was studied at GCSE level in England and Wales as part of the AQA Anthology , a collection of poems by modern poets such as Duffy and Seamus Heaney .
Proto-Germanic, in fact, had two nouns derived from this word, later merging into the modern English noun: *murþrą "death, killing, murder" (directly from Proto-Indo-European*mŕ̥-trom), whence Old English morðor "secret or unlawful killing of a person, murder; mortal sin, crime; punishment, torment, misery"; [7] and *murþrijô "murderer ...
The theme of Cock Robin's death as well as the poem's distinctive cadence have become archetypes, much used in literary fiction and other works of art, from poems, to murder mysteries, to cartoons. [1] In 2025, Canadian poet Ron Charach reimagined the poem, with the contributing animals drawn exclusively from the world of birds.
Murder in the Cathedral is a verse drama by T. S. Eliot, first performed in 1935 (published the same year). The play portrays the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral during the reign of Henry II in 1170.