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The Brazilian public holiday of Dia de Finados, Dia dos Mortos or Dia dos Fiéis Defuntos (Portuguese: "Day of the Dead" or "Day of the Faithful Deceased") is celebrated on November 2. Similar to other Day of the Dead celebrations, people go to cemeteries and churches with flowers and candles and offer prayers. The celebration is intended as a ...
Every Changing Shape: Mystical Experience and the Making of Poems. London: André Deutsch, 1961; Manchester: Carcanet, 1996, ISBN 978-1-85754-247-9; Poetry Today (British Council and National British League). London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1961 "Emily Dickinson and the Poetry of the Inner Life". Review of English Literature 3.2 (April 1962 ...
The Complete Poems of Robert W. Service (New York: Dodd Mead, 1933) Rhyme and Romance: a Robert Service anthology (London: E. Benn, 1949) Later Collected Verse (New York: Dodd Mead, 1954, 55, 65) Collected Poems of Robert Service (New York: Dodd Mead, 1954) More Collected Verse (New York: Dodd Mead, 1955) Songs of the High North (London: E ...
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 .
The cemetery included some 600 dead Confederate soldiers and its dedication was an important enough occasion that shops closed before noon and several thousand attended in spite of heavy rain. [ 1 ] After its presentation on June 16, 1866, it was published two days later on June 18 in the Charleston Courier . [ 2 ]
It Is Easy To Be Dead by Neil McPherson, a play on Sorley's life, based on his poetry and letters, was presented at the Finborough Theatre, London, and subsequently at Trafalgar Studios, London, in 2016 where it was nominated for an Olivier Award. [4] It subsequently toured to Glasgow and Sorley's birthplace, Aberdeen, in 2018.
Brooke wrote the five poems that were published in 1914 in the autumn after the outbreak of the First World War when he enlisted in the Royal Naval Division. Also in this collection is 'The Soldier', one of Brooke's most famous poems, though 'The Dead' (IV) was one of his personal favourites. The poems were published in New Numbers before being ...
Answering a reader's question about the poem in 1879, Longfellow himself summarized that the poem was "a transcript of my thoughts and feelings at the time I wrote, and of the conviction therein expressed, that Life is something more than an idle dream." [13] Richard Henry Stoddard referred to the theme of the poem as a "lesson of endurance". [14]