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  2. Fire and Ice (poem) - Wikipedia

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    "Fire and Ice" is a short poem by Robert Frost that discusses the end of the world, likening the elemental force of fire with the emotion of desire, and ice with hate. It was first published in December 1920 in Harper's Magazine [ 1 ] and was later published in Frost's 1923 Pulitzer Prize -winning book New Hampshire .

  3. Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. The Cremation of Sam McGee - Wikipedia

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    "The Cremation of Sam McGee" is among the most famous of Robert W. Service's poems. It was published in 1907 in Songs of a Sourdough. (A "sourdough", in this sense, is a resident of the Yukon.) [1] It concerns the cremation of a prospector who freezes to death near Lake Laberge [2] (spelled "Lebarge" by Service), Yukon, Canada, as told by the man who cremates him.

  5. Carson Daly shares the poem that ‘really saved’ him after his ...

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    The poem that gave Carson solace is titled “Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep.” It describes how a person may have passed on, but there's still signs of their spirit every day in "the sun on ...

  6. When I Have Fears - Wikipedia

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    [10] The epitaph, which Keats requested on his deathbed, [11] reflects Keats' fears of death and anger with fate, as "When I Have Fears" does. [12] The last three lines of the poem which describe "the shore" and state, "Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink" may relate to the reference to water in Keats' epitaph.

  7. Obituary poetry - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  8. And death shall have no dominion - Wikipedia

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    [5] In 1933, in a notebook marked 'April', Thomas wrote the poem "And death shall have no dominion". Trick persuaded him to seek a publisher and in May of that year it was printed in New English Weekly. [5] On 10 September 1936, two years after the release of his first volume of poetry , Twenty-five Poems was published. It revealed Thomas's ...

  9. Death poem - Wikipedia

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    The death poem is a genre of poetry that developed in the literary traditions of the Sinosphere—most prominently in Japan as well as certain periods of Chinese history, Joseon Korea, and Vietnam. They tend to offer a reflection on death—both in general and concerning the imminent death of the author—that is often coupled with a meaningful ...