Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Pages in category "Poems about death" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
According to Diogenes Laertius, the Pre-Socratic philosopher from Sicily, who, in one of his surviving poems, declared himself to have become a "divine being... no longer mortal", [24] tried to prove he was an immortal god by leaping into Mount Etna, an active volcano. [25] [26] The Roman poet Horace also alludes to this legend. [27] Sogdianus ...
Kansas native Clare Harner (1909–1977) first published "Immortality" in the December 1934 issue of poetry magazine The Gypsy [1] and was reprinted in their February 1935 issue. It was written shortly after the sudden death of her brother. Harner's poem quickly gained traction as a eulogy and was read at funerals in Kansas and Missouri.
As the poem continues, Sexton writes of discussions, moments and the passionate wish for death the two shared throughout their letters and friendship. Nearing the end of the work, Sexton recognises the close relationship Plath held with death, and concludes the poem calling Plath a "friend", "tiny mother", "funny duchess" and "blonde thing". [3]
An inquest into the death of Semina Halliwell, ... 'Funny, kind Semina lit up room': 12-year-old's tragic overdose death. Eleanor Lawrie and Michael Buchanan - Social affairs, BBC news.
This, Sorley's last poem, was recovered from his kit after his death. It was untitled, and so is commonly known by its incipit , or other titles. It is generally interpreted as a rebuttal to Rupert Brooke 's 1915 sonnet " The Soldier .", [ 2 ] which begins "If I should die, think only this of me: / That there's some corner of a foreign field ...
"Death & Co" is a poem by Sylvia Plath, dated 19 April 1962, and first appearing in the collection Ariel published by Faber & Faber in 1965, and by Harper & Row in 1966. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Background
Death is a gentleman who is riding in the horse carriage that picks up the speaker in the poem and takes the speaker on her journey to the afterlife. According to Thomas H. Johnson's variorum edition of 1955 the number of this poem is "712". The poet's persona speaks about Death and Afterlife, the peace that comes along with it without haste.