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Death Poems

Russ Kick
Death Poems Book PDF

Author : Russ Kick
Publisher : Red Wheel Weiser
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781609259204

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Pretty much every poet in every age has written about death and dying. Along with love, it might be the most popular subject in poetry. Yet, until now, no anthology has gathered the best and most famous of these verses in one place. This collection ranges dramatically. With more than 320 poems, it goes across all of history, from the ancients straight through to today. Across countries and languages, across schools of poetry. You’ll find a plethora of approaches—witty, humorous, deadly serious, tear-jerking, wise, profound, angry, spiritual, atheistic, uncertain, highly personal, political, mythic, earthy, and only occasionally morbid. Every angle you can think of is covered—the deaths of children, lost loves, funeral rites, close calls, eating meat, serial killers, the death penalty, roadkill, the Underworld, reincarnation, elegies for famous people, death as an equalizer, death as a junk man, death as a child, the death of God, the death of death . . . . You’ll find death poetry’s greatest hits, including: “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson “To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman “Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” by Walt Whitman “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe The rest of the band includes . . .Jane Austen, Mary Jo Bang, Willis Barnstone, Charles Baudelaire, William Blake, Charlotte Brontë, Lord Byron, Lucille Clifton, Andrei Codrescu, Wanda Coleman, Billy Collins, Ralph Waldo Emerson, T.S. Eliot, Nick Flynn, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Frost, Kimiko Hahn, Homer, Victor Hugo, Langston Hughes, James Joyce, C.S. Lewis, Amy Lowell, W.S. Merwin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Pablo Neruda, Thich Nhat Hanh, Friedrich Nietzsche, Wilfred Owen, Rainer Maria Rilke, Christina Rossetti, Rumi, Sappho, Shakespeare, Wallace Stevens, Ruth Stone, Wislawa Szymborska, W.B. Yeats, and a few hundred more.

Japanese Death Poems

Anonim
Japanese Death Poems Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998-04-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781462916498

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"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." --Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem." Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet's life. Hundreds of Japanese death poems, many with a commentary describing the circumstances of the poet's death, have been translated into English here, the vast majority of them for the first time. Yoel Hoffmann explores the attitudes and customs surrounding death in historical and present-day Japan and gives examples of how these have been reflected in the nation's literature in general. The development of writing jisei is then examined--from the longing poems of the early nobility and the more "masculine" verses of the samurai to the satirical death poems of later centuries. Zen Buddhist ideas about death are also described as a preface to the collection of Chinese death poems by Zen monks that are also included. Finally, the last section contains three hundred twenty haiku, some of which have never been assembled before, in English translation and romanized in Japanese.

Poems of Life and Death

Arcturus Publishing,Daniel Conway
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Author : Arcturus Publishing,Daniel Conway
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781784285333

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This collection contains poetic reflections on life and death from some of the world's best-loved poets, including Wordsworth, Tennyson, Dickinson, Rossetti, Keats, Brontë, and many more. Ranging from wisdoms on youth and age to heart-wrenching elegies of bereavement and profound meditations on the nature of human mortality, these are poems that explore our precious time on earth and perhaps offer some comfort for those seeking consolation.

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran
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Author : Kahlil Gibran
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789390287826

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The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran Pdf

A book of poetic essays written in English, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is full of religious inspirations. With the twelve illustrations drawn by the author himself, the book took more than eleven years to be formulated and perfected and is Gibran's best-known work. It represents the height of his literary career as he came to be noted as ‘the Bard of Washington Street.’ Captivating and vivified with feeling, The Prophet has been translated into forty languages throughout the world, and is considered the most widely read book of the twentieth century. Its first edition of 1300 copies sold out within a month.

Felicity

Mary Oliver
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Author : Mary Oliver
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780698407473

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Felicity by Mary Oliver Pdf

“A breezy, inviting collection of love poems that celebrates the divine as much as it does the natural world or human relationships . . . An eloquent celebration of simple joy from one of America’s most beloved poets.” —The Washington Post “Oliver’s poems are thoroughly convincing—as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring.” —New York Times Book Review Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in this collection of poems "If I have any secret stash of poems, anywhere, it might be about love, not anger," Mary Oliver once said in an interview. Finally, in her stunning new collection, Felicity, we can immerse ourselves in Oliver’s love poems. Here, great happiness abounds. Our most delicate chronicler of physical landscape, Oliver has described her work as loving the world. With Felicity she examines what it means to love another person. She opens our eyes again to the territory within our own hearts; to the wild and to the quiet. In these poems, she describes—with joy—the strangeness and wonder of human connection. As in Blue Horses, Dog Songs, and A Thousand Mornings, with Felicity Oliver honors love, life, and beauty.

Autobiography of Death

Kim Hyesoon
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Author : Kim Hyesoon
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811227353

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Kim Hyesoon’s poems “create a seething, imaginative under-and over-world where myth and politics, the everyday and the fabulous, bleed into each other” (Sean O’Brien, The Independent) *Winner of The Griffin International Poetry Prize and the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Award* The title section of Kim Hyesoon’s powerful new book, Autobiography of Death, consists of forty-nine poems, each poem representing a single day during which the spirit roams after death before it enters the cycle of reincarnation. The poems not only give voice to those who met unjust deaths during Korea’s violent contemporary history, but also unveil what Kim calls “the structure of death, that we remain living in.” Autobiography of Death, Kim’s most compelling work to date, at once reenacts trauma and narrates our historical death—how we have died and how we survive within this cyclical structure. In this sea of mirrors, the plural “you” speaks as a body of multitudes that has been beaten, bombed, and buried many times over by history. The volume concludes on the other side of the mirror with “Face of Rhythm,” a poem about individual pain, illness, and meditation.

Death to the Death of Poetry

Donald Hall
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Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015034295942

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A spirited defense of the vitality of contemporary poetry.

Death Is Nothing at All

Canon Henry Scott Holland
Death Is Nothing at All Book PDF

Author : Canon Henry Scott Holland
Publisher : Souvenir PressLtd
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0285628240

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Death Is Nothing at All by Canon Henry Scott Holland Pdf

A comforting bereavement gift book, consisting of a short sermon from Canon Henry Scott Holland.

Funeral Poems

Michael Ashby
Funeral Poems Book PDF

Author : Michael Ashby
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1518624979

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137 FUNERAL POEMS to COMFORT YOU, already being used by UK & US Funeral Directors & Civil Funeral Celebrants; 80 inspirational famous poems by SHAKESPEARE, TENNYSON, WORDSWORTH, BURNS, KEATS, SHELLEY, BYRON, DICKINSON, BROWNING, ROSSETTI, BROOKE... and 57 MODERN funeral poems including: "I AM NOT GONE", "A LONG CUP OF TEA", "RAINBOWS ON THE MOON", "MY MUM", "GRANDPA'S LOST HIS GR", "THE GOLF COURSE IN THE SKY" & "I WANT TO BE BURIED WITH MY MOBILE PHONE"... by Michael Ashby, one of the world's leading, modern funeral poets, whose poems have already touched the lives of millions in over 172 countries through Michael's website & facebook pages & moving, global Comments from these are included.

Stopping for Death

Carol Ann Duffy
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Author : Carol Ann Duffy
Publisher : Viking Canada
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020509225

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Stopping for Death by Carol Ann Duffy Pdf

A collection of poems about death, loss, and mourning written by poets from all over the world including Janet Frame, Alice Walker, and Seamus Heaney.

The First Free Women

Matty Weingast
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Author : Matty Weingast
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780834842687

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The First Free Women by Matty Weingast Pdf

An Ancient Collection Reimagined Composed around the Buddha’s lifetime, the Therigatha (“Verses of the Elder Nuns”) contains the poems of the first Buddhist women: princesses and courtesans, tired wives of arranged marriages and the desperately in love, those born into limitless wealth and those born with nothing at all. The original authors of the Therigatha were women from every kind of background, but they all shared a deep-seated desire for awakening and liberation. In The First Free Women, Matty Weingast has reimagined this ancient collection and created a contemporary and radical adaptation that takes the essence of each poem and highlights the struggles and doubts, as well as the strength, perseverance, and profound compassion, embodied by these courageous women.

Close to Death

Patricia Smith
Close to Death Book PDF

Author : Patricia Smith
Publisher : Steerforth
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015033096564

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Poems that amplify the voices and souls of black men at various stages of their lives, men who always feel as if they are "C2D," close to death.

Dearly

Margaret Atwood
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Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780063032514

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Dearly by Margaret Atwood Pdf

A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret Atwood In Dearly, Margaret Atwood’s first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and - zombies. Her new poetry is introspective and personal in tone, but wide-ranging in topic. In poem after poem, she casts her unique imagination and unyielding, observant eye over the landscape of a life carefully and intuitively lived. While many are familiar with Margaret Atwood’s fiction—including her groundbreaking and bestselling novels The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments, Oryx and Crake, among others—she has, from the beginning of her career, been one of our most significant contemporary poets. And she is one of the very few writers equally accomplished in fiction and poetry. This collection is a stunning achievement that will be appreciated by fans of her novels and poetry readers alike.

Poems About Death

Eric v.d. Luft
Poems About Death Book PDF

Author : Eric v.d. Luft
Publisher : Gegensatz Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781621307853

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Eight centuries of poetry by Guillaume Apollinaire, Charles Baudelaire, Stephen Vincent Benét, Bruce Bennett, Bob Beru, Ambrose Bierce, Deborah Boe, Anne Bradstreet, Emily Brontë, Rupert Brooke, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Robert Burns, Hart Crane, Rob Dickenson, John Donne, Ernest Christopher Dowson, Bekka Eaton, Shloyme Ettinger, Pam Freeman, Charles Kelsey Gaines, Mozart Guerrier, Joe Hill, Ibrahim Honjo, Violet Jacob, James Weldon Johnson, John Keats, Christopher Kennedy, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Nikolaus Lenau, K. Lee Lerner, Eric v.d. Luft, Katharyn Howd Machan, Guillaume de Machaut, Gérard de Nerval, Friedrich Nietzsche, Paracelsa, Sarah Penn, Patricia Piety, August Graf von Platen, Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Lola Ridge, Rainer Maria Rilke, Jay Rogoff, Isaac Rosenberg, Tanya Rucosky Noakes, Bonnie A. St. Andrews, David Saxton, William Shakespeare, Brielle Stanton, Bayard Taylor, Thor Vilhjálmsson, Georg Trakl, Paul Valéry, Tobias Vargrim, François Villon, Phillis Wheatley, Anna Wickham, Elinor Wylie, William Butler Yeats, and of course, everyone's favorite: Anonymous.

Death Poetry

Stephanie Buckwalter
Death Poetry Book PDF

Author : Stephanie Buckwalter
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766042575

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Death Poetry by Stephanie Buckwalter Pdf

Is death the end, or a new beginning? Should it be feared, or embraced? Or is it simply a ceasing to exist? What better way to examine this great unknown than through poetry. Author Stephanie Buckwalter explores eight poems and poets, with chapters on John Donne, Emily Bronte, Walt Whitman, and five others. Accompanied by biographical information on the poet and end-of-chapter questions for further study, Buckwalter unravels each poem, including detailed analysis of form, content, poetic technique, and theme, encouraging readers to develop the tools to understand and appreciate poetry.