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The poem was one of Whitman's most popular during his lifetime, particularly during the Reconstruction era. The scholar Ed Folsom notes that it was his most anthologized poem in those years. Folsom felt that the poem found its success because of the vast populations that could relate to the loss of a family member during the war. [8]
Many of the poems are eulogies to monks, to warriors, and to family members — in one case, a sister. The Silla period, especially before unification in 668, was a time of warfare; the hyangga capture the sorrow of mourning for the dead while Buddhism provided answers about where the dead go and the afterlife.
Gerda Kamilla Mayer (9 June 1927 – 15 July 2021) was an English poet. [1] Born to a Jewish family in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia, she escaped to England from Prague in 1939, aged eleven, on a Kindertransport flight organised by Trevor Chadwick.
I was grateful to have Aunt Kathi and Aunt Vicki with me that day. When my dad died in 2007, my mom said the prayer "The Memorare," at his bedside.It's a Catholic prayer asking for the Blessed ...
The family returned to Sydney, but Murray, planning to return to his home at Bunyah, managed to buy back part of the lost family home in 1975 and to visit there intermittently until 1985 when he and his family returned to live there permanently. [7] Murray died on 29 April 2019 at a Taree, New South Wales, nursing home at the age of 80. [12] [13]
Her poetry was inspired by family and church themes, and included hymns and sacred texts. She worked in several fields including book reviewing, story writing, and verse making. For a quarter of a century, Sangster was known by the public as a writer, beginning as a writer of verse, and combining later the practical work of a critic and journalist.
It's been nearly 20 years since a catastrophic tsunami wreaked havoc on at least 12 countries and killed 230,000 people — Dendy Montgomery, of Indonesia, was one of the survivors, although many ...
Zayna Elkarra, a 16-year-old Palestinian American student in San Francisco, visited family in Gaza for the first time in summer 2023. She has since lost more than 100 relatives in the Israeli ...