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Tag Archives: Poetry about Death
“You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.”
- Aberjhani
“Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.”
- Phoebe Cary
Posted in A Rite of Passage
Tagged Heart, Love, Phoebe Cary, poet, Poetry about Death, Quotes about Death, Quotes about Life, Saying About Death
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“Peace” by Langston Hughes
Hughes’ funeral poem reflects on the futile nature of war when the ultimate price soldiers pay for peace is through their deaths
War and its consequences wreak havoc on countless lives with its numerous casualties — whether they are civilian members or the soldiers involved on either side. In his poem, “Peace,” one of my all-time favorite poets, Langston Hughes, captures the irony of war’s … Continue reading
“Sonnet” by Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop's images in "Sonnet" makes the end of life a release into joy
Is the end of life best imagined as a climactic release? Although not explicitly about death, Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “Sonnet” all but dramatizes it as a swift vault from captivity to liberation as the poem depicts the soul’s gleeful escape from “caught” (1) … Continue reading
“Kyrie” by Ellen Bryant Voigt
Ellen Bryant Voigt's sonnet sequence on the post-WWI Influenza of 1918
Few may be familiar with the Influenza of 1918. Although it took half a million lives in the U.S. and 25 million worldwide, most of whom were young adults, the pandemic somehow eludes due emphasis in our history books. One … Continue reading
Posted in Lending Insight
Tagged Ellen Bryant Voigt, Epidemic, Illness, Influenza, Kyrie, Loss in Poetry, pandemic, Poetry, Poetry about Death, Sonnets, World War I
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“The Man with Night Sweats” by Thom Gunn
Thom Gunn memorializes his loved ones who died of AIDS
Thom Gunn’s The Man with Night Sweats (1992) memorializes a San Francisco poet’s tragic losses due to AIDS. An “Anglo-American poet” known for his brainy yet visceral formal verse, the late British expatriate often wrote in meter and rhyme about his … Continue reading
