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Epitaph on the base of the Haymarket Martyrs' Monument, Waldheim Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois. An epitaph (from Ancient Greek ἐπιτάφιος (epitáphios) 'a funeral oration'; from ἐπι-(epi-) 'at, over' and τάφος (táphos) 'tomb') [1] [2] is a short text honoring a deceased person.
Kansas native Clare Harner (1909–1977) first published "Immortality" in the December 1934 issue of poetry magazine The Gypsy [1] and was reprinted in their February 1935 issue. It was written shortly after the sudden death of her brother. Harner's poem quickly gained traction as a eulogy and was read at funerals in Kansas and Missouri.
Obituary poetry, in the broad sense, includes poems or elegies that commemorate a person's or group of people's deaths. In its stricter sense, though, it refers to a genre of popular verse or folk poetry that had its greatest popularity in the nineteenth century, especially in the United States of America .
In the poem “Painted Tongue,” Byas writes: “We twist and turn in the mirror,/ my mother and I becoming each other,/ her bruises and scars passed down,/ family heirlooms that will take/ me ...
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... Pages in category "Poems about death" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total.
The title refers to the poetic genre of aubade, poems written about the early morning. "Aubade" has been described by Frank Wilson of the Philadelphia Inquirer as Larkin's last truly great poem. [ 3 ]
The poem uses the journey into the unknown as a metaphor for death, with the ship itself representing the human soul and the loved ones in the quay, the friends and family of the departed. [2] The poem was written in the context of the deep and enduring love that Yahya Kemal felt for tr:Celile Hikmet, artist and mother of poet Nazim Hikmet. [7]
Charles Bukowski* — over twenty books of poetry and short stories; Emily Dickinson* — virtually all of her poems; Federico García Lorca* — Diván del Tamarit, Poet in New York, Yerma, Sonnets of Dark Love; Mikhail Lermontov — Demon, The Princess of the Tide, Valerik