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A page from Night-Thoughts, illustrated by William Blake. The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, better known simply as Night-Thoughts, is a long poem by Edward Young published in nine parts (or "nights") between 1742 and 1745. It was illustrated with notable engravings by William Blake.
An illustration for Young's Night-Thoughts by William Blake. The earliest poem attributed to the Graveyard School was Thomas Parnell's A Night-Piece on Death , [12] in which King Death himself gives an address from his kingdom of bones: "When men my scythe and darts supply How great a King of Fears am I!" (61–62)
This humbling simile has caused the narrator to move from thoughtlessness to thought, and, as "thought is life", from death to life, allowing the conclusion, "Then am I / A happy fly / If I live, / Or if I die", a conclusion to which Paul Miner comments: "Brain-death is real death". [6] "The Fly" tells of the ways of life and how to live ...
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.
[3] The poem, 767 lines long, is an exemplar of what became known as the school of graveyard poetry. [4] Part of the poem's continued prominence in scholarship involves a later printing of poems by Robert Hartley Cromek which included illustrations completed by the Romantic poet and illustrator William Blake. He completed forty illustrations ...
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 ]
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 ...
Gone From My Sight", also known as the "Parable of Immortality" and "What Is Dying" is a poem (or prose poem) presumably written by the Rev. Luther F. Beecher (1813–1903), cousin of Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. At least three publications credit the poem to Luther Beecher in printings shortly after his death in 1904. [1]