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  2. Lady Lazarus - Wikipedia

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    "Lady Lazarus" and Sylvia Plath's poetry catalog falls under the literary genre of Confessional poetry.. According to the American poet and critic, Macha Rosenthal, Plath's poetry is confessional due to the way that she uses psychological shame and vulnerability, centers herself as the speaker, and represents the civilization she is living in. [1] Her husband, the poet Ted Hughes, has ...

  3. Mary Dawes Blackett - Wikipedia

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    In this "ode to Chatterton," Blackett addresses the presumed English predisposition to suicide, [7] which she describes as a "horrid Mania" that calls "for the most serious consideration." [ 8 ] The poem critiques the death penalty for inuring the population to death, describes six suicides, and offers a message of fortitude in adversity.

  4. List of English-language expressions related to death

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    To commit suicide Slang Originated from the Usenet newsgroup alt.suicide.holiday: Charon: Ferryman of Hades: Neutral Crosses the rivers Styx and Acheron which divide the world of the living from the world of the dead Check out To die Euphemism Choir Invisible To die Humorous: British. "Join the choir invisible" Monty Python Dead Parrot Sketch.

  5. The Suicide's Soliloquy - Wikipedia

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    The poem was published in the Sangamo Journal, [2] a newspaper in which Lincoln had previously published other works. The poem uses a similar meter, sync, dictation and tone with many other poems published by Lincoln and according to Richard Miller, the man who discovered the poem, the theme of the interplay between rationality and madness is "especially Lincolnian in spirit". [3]

  6. Boris Ryzhy - Wikipedia

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    Since his death in 2001, his poetry has been lauded and added to the canon of Russian poets. Many of his poems and collections have been added to the volumes of essential literature in the last several years, and he has gained huge popularity for his verse, which is at times vulgar and swaggering, at times formally masterful and reminiscent of Russia's Silver Age.

  7. Language death - Wikipedia

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    Top-to-bottom language death: happens when language shift begins in a high-level environment such as the government, but still continues to be used in casual context. Radical language death: the disappearance of a language when all speakers of the language cease to speak the language because of threats, pressure, persecution, or colonisation.

  8. Kostas Karyotakis - Wikipedia

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    One of his most famous poems is "Preveza", about the place where he committed suicide. Death is the bullies bashing against the black walls and roof tiling, death is the women being loved as if onion peeling. Death the squalid, unimportant streets with their glamorous and pompous names, the olive-grove, the surrounding sea, and even

  9. The Two Voices - Wikipedia

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    "The Two Voices" is a poem written by future Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom Alfred, Lord Tennyson between 1833 and 1834. It was included in his 1842 collection of Poems. Tennyson wrote the poem, titled "Thoughts of a Suicide" in manuscript, after the death of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam in 1833. The poem was autobiographical. [1]