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Contrary to popular belief, the poem is not about the death of Field's son, who died several years after its publication. Field once admitted that the words "Little Boy Blue" occurred to him when he needed a rhyme for the seventh line in the first stanza. The poem first appeared in 1888 in the Chicago weekly literary journal America. Its editor ...
James J. Metcalfe, in a collage of FBI Special Agents from 1934. His poem, "We Were the G-Men," may be seen at center. Metcalf is at center in the far left column. James J. Metcalfe (September 16, 1906 – March 1960) was an American poet whose "Daily Poem Portraits" were published in more than 100 United States newspapers during the 1940s and 1950s.
Such was the popular mood (remember the queues across the bridges near Westminster Abbey) that the words of the poem, so plain as scarcely to be poetic, seemed to strike a chord. Not since Auden's 'Stop All the Clocks' in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral had a piece of funerary verse made such an impression on the nation. In the days ...
My son, Alex, struggled with a drug addiction and died from an overdose. My husband and I grieved differently; I took a more public approach. We were determined not to let Alex's death destroy our ...
After her son's death, Jeni started a foundation called the Mattie J.T. Stepanek Foundation, which aims to continue her son's legacy.She tells PEOPLE she kept in contact with Carter even after ...
For three weeks, my husband, brother, and father were close by in the hospital as doctors in the intensive care unit worked to save my life. Eventually, I was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune ...
The Man Who Died Twice may refer to: "The Man Who Died Twice" (poem), Pulitzer Prize winning work by Edwin Arlington Robinson; The Man Who Died Twice ...
The soldier's father read the poem on BBC radio in 1995 in remembrance of his son, who had left the poem among his personal effects in an envelope addressed 'To all my loved ones'. The poem's first four lines are engraved on one of the stones of the Everest Memorial, Chukpi Lhara, in Dhugla Valley, near Everest. Reference to the wind and snow ...