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"Their little souls to the angels flew...." 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.
The poem was adapted as the lyrics in the song "Prayer" by Lizzie West. The last four lines of the poem were recited among others in Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy. The poem is read by Lisa (played by Kerry Godliman), the dying wife of lead character Tony (played by Ricky Gervais) in the final episode of the Netflix series After Life.
[a] Sometimes they are written in the three-line, seventeen-syllable haiku form, although the most common type of death poem (called a jisei 辞世) is in the waka form called the tanka (also called a jisei-ei 辞世詠) which consists of five lines totaling 31 syllables (5-7-5-7-7)—a form that constitutes over half of surviving death poems ...
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Losing my 29-year-old husband last year and becoming a young widow was not part of the plans I had for my life.
Martha Moulsworth (10 November 1577 – c. 28 October 1646), born Martha Dorsett, was an English writer who spent much of her life in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire. [1] [2] Her only known literary work, [a] Memorandum of Martha Moulsworth, Widow (1632), an autobiographical poem, is one of the earliest known autobiographies in English.
Taylor Swift just released her new album, The Tortured Poets Department, a collection of songs focused on love and loss. I’m only a “gentle Swiftie,” so I should admit up front there are ...
“Being a widow in my 20s, I don’t have as many people around me who relate to that grief experience. So, when I found out about the camp, I signed up the day I found out.” ‘A big leap of ...