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This 3 page paper discusses the way in which death is portrayed in poetry. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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concludes that the experience of death is so universal and yet so mysterious that its impossible to say there is one approach that characterizes the subject. Discussion Death as a
theme is very individual to each poet. For some it is associated only with mourning; for some it is restful; and for some it is heroic. One of the most
moving poems about death is W.H. Audens Stop All the Clocks, which was featured in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral. The last stanza expresses the desolation of a
loss: "The stars are not wanted now: put out every one; / Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; / Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
/ For nothing now can ever come to any good" (Auden, 1936). On the other hand, there is the heroic idea of death in battle, a concept that has sent
millions of young men willingly to face the enemy on the field of battle: "Cannon to right of them, / Cannon to left of them, / Cannon in front of
them / Volleyd and thunderd; / Stormd at with shot and shell, / Boldly they rode and well, / Into the jaws of Death, /Into the mouth of Hell /
Rode the six hundred" (Tennyson, 1870). Still another type of poem shows death as sheer horror: "The curtain, a funeral pall, / Comes down with the rush of a storm,
/ While the angels, all pallid and wan, / Uprising, unveiling, affirm / That the play is the tragedy, Man, / And its hero, the Conqueror Worm" (Poe, 1946). The
setting for this poem is a theater, in which a glittering audience has settled itself to see a play; however, the evening turns to terror as the audience sees a
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