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"Come Up from the Fields Father" is a poem by Walt Whitman.It was first published in the 1865 poetry volume Drum-Taps.The poem centers around a family living on a farm in Ohio who receives a letter informing them that their son has been killed, and chronicles their grief, particularly that of the boy's mother.
The father of one of the victims of the mass shooting at a Parkland, Florida, school shared a heartbreaking poem his son wrote just weeks before his death. Max Schachter read a free verse poem ...
My Boy Jack is the name of a 1997 play written by English actor David Haig.It examines how grief affected Rudyard Kipling and his family following the death of his son, John (known as Jack [citation needed]; although see the main Wikipedia entry on Rudyard Kipling), at the Battle of Loos in 1915.
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 ...
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.
Longfellow wrote the poem shortly after completing lectures on German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and was heavily inspired by him. He was also inspired to write it by a heartfelt conversation he had with friend and fellow professor at Harvard University Cornelius Conway Felton; the two had spent an evening "talking of matters, which lie near one's soul:–and how to bear one's self ...
Aubade" is a poem by the English poet Philip Larkin, ... Larkin described it as an "in-a-funk-about-death" poem. [4] References in popular culture
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 .