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The poem on a gravestone in Mount Jerome, Dublin, Ireland The poem, on a plaque at the Albin Memorial Gardens, Culling Road, London SE16. Other versions of the poem appeared later, usually without attribution, such as the one below. [7] Differing words are shown in italics.
At its narrowest, the term "Graveyard School" refers to four poems: Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", Thomas Parnell's "Night-Piece on Death", Robert Blair's The Grave and Edward Young's Night-Thoughts. At its broadest, it can describe a host of poetry and prose works popular in the early and mid-eighteenth century.
The "we" of the poem describes drinking the black milk of dawn at evening, noon, daybreak and night, and shovelling "a grave in the skies". They introduce a "he", who writes letters to Germany, plays with snakes, whistles orders to his dogs and to his Jews to dig a grave in the earth (the words "Rüden" (male dogs) and "Juden" (Jews) are assonant in German), [9] and commands "us" to play music ...
Keats' fear of death is also present for his own life, not just his patients. This fear is evident on his gravestone, with the words "Here lies one whose name was writ in water." [ 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 ]
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.
Carson wrote that the moving words were shared with him when he was "deep in the grip of crippling grief shortly after her sudden death." He added that the poem "really saved" him and "still does."
[28] In keeping with the varieties and difficulties of Crane criticism, the poem has been interpreted widely—as a death ode, [29] life ode, process poem, visionary poem, and a poem on failed vision—but its biographical impetus out of Crane's first heterosexual affair (with Peggy Cowley, estranged wife of Malcolm Cowley) is generally undisputed.
For individuals who actually are closer to death, either through age or illness, she adds, “it either goes up or it goes down — some of death anxiety is fear of the unknown, and when you’re ...