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Poetree: The Innovative Urn: Margaux Ruyant's urn honors the life of the deceased while cultivating the new life of a tree -
Putting It Back Together: Exploring Grief through a near-death experience: A 21-year-old woman's near-fatal accident alters her relationship with life. -
Buddhism and the Eastern Middle Ground: In Buddhist tradition, our death falls into a plane of existence that continues even after our final breath
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Tag Archives: Seamus Heaney
Getting Blindsided by Grief
Tomas Transtromer manages to convey all-consuming emotions in a concise poem
My search for a poem for this week was very short; as soon as I happened upon “After a Death,” by Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer, I knew I was hooked. The poem is short (and translated into English, by Robert … Continue reading
Seeing the Beauty in Both Life and Death
William Butler Yeats inspires readers with "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
When I took my “Literature in the 20th Century” course at my university, the professor of the class called William Butler Yeats’s “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” one of the most beautiful poems she had ever read; an article I … Continue reading
On the Death of a Brother
Seamus Heaney's "Mid-Term Break" is raw, real
Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 for his poetry, and it is no wonder why; his works have their own beauty and rhythm that gives them a kind of musical quality. One of his poems, … Continue reading
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Tagged Death, Death of a Naturalist, Grief, Literature, Mid-Term Break, Seamus Heaney
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