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Deor" (or "The Lament of Deor") is an Old English poem found on folio 100r–100v of the late-10th-century collection [1] the Exeter Book. The poem consists of a reflection on misfortune by a poet whom the poem is usually thought to name Deor. The poem has no title in the Exeter Book itself; the title has been bestowed by modern editors.
The author says her son is with her every step of the way, just in a different way now. This is what she's learned since his death. It's been 10 years since my son died.
A woman who saved years' worth of daily text messages from her dad turned them into a sentimental Christmas gift that left her dad in tears. Leah Doherty of Ohio told "Good Morning America" that ...
"A Prayer for My Daughter" is a poem by William Butler Yeats written in 1919 and published in 1921 as part of Yeats' collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer. It is written to Anne, his daughter with Georgie Hyde-Lees, whom Yeats married after his last marriage proposal to Maud Gonne was rejected in 1916. [1]
In the poem, the family gets a letter from Pete. Their oldest daughter calls for her father to "come up from the fields" and her mother to "come to the front door" to read the letter. A third-person narrator soon takes over the poem from the daughter and chronicles the family's grief as they learn that their son has died. [1]
On a small table adjacent to a red couch, Doris Hernandez keeps the last photo of her late son amid dozens of crosses, a rosary and a Bible with worn pages bearing the weight of countless prayers.
Hughes is the daughter of the poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Her mother was an American novelist and poet, and her father was the British poet laureate from 1984 until his death in 1998. Her mother died by suicide when Hughes was almost three; her father died of a heart attack while being treated for cancer.
In addition to its inclusion among the many translations of Catullus' collected poems, Catullus 101 is featured in Nox (2010), a book by Canadian poet and classicist Anne Carson that comes in an accordion format within a box. Nox concerns the death of Carson's own brother, to which the poem of Catullus offers a parallel. Carson provides the ...