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  2. 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 .

  3. Category:Poems about death - Wikipedia

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  4. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd - Wikipedia

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    Instead, he uses a series of rural and natural imagery including the symbols of the lilacs, a drooping star in the western sky , and the hermit thrush, and he employs the traditional progression of the pastoral elegy in moving from grief toward an acceptance and knowledge of death. The poem also addresses the pity of war through imagery vaguely ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Pastoral elegy - Wikipedia

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    In 17th century England, Andrew Marvell was a great exponent of the pastoral form, contributing such works as "The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Faun." In this poem, a nymph or spirit of nature speaks an elegy for her dead pet deer. [9] The pastoral elegy in contemporary poetry

  7. Because I could not stop for Death - Wikipedia

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    "Because I could not stop for Death" is a lyrical poem by Emily Dickinson first published posthumously in Poems: Series 1 in 1890. Dickinson's work was never authorized to be published, so it is unknown whether "Because I could not stop for Death" was completed or "abandoned". [1] The speaker of Dickinson's poem meets personified Death. Death ...

  8. The Death of King Edgar - Wikipedia

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    The 37-line poem reads like a series of disasters that will befall the English people after the death of the king. According to Lois Bragg, it is divisible into six sections, the last four of which share the theme of disaster: ll. 1–2, the death of King Edgar; ll. 13–15, the death of bishop Cyneweard of Glastonbury

  9. Catullus 68 - Wikipedia

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    Troy stands for the strangeness of death, for the remoteness of the world of the dead from that of the living." [6] A metaphoric connection has been made to the poem's reference to Hercules, whose painful death by burning led to his apotheosis and marriage to the goddess Hebe, leading him to achieve eternal happiness. [7]

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