Can any one give me two good death poets b american poets that are pretty long if not medium size. Also they have to not be by Emily Dickinson, or the Raven since i already got that down but another Edgar A Poe poem would work fantastic. Thanks in advance!
2007-04-25 08:44:26 · 7 answers · asked by Edgar 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
"RIP" by James Wright
http://plagiarist.com/poetry/4269/
"Small Frogs Killed on the Highway" by James Wright
http://plagiarist.com/poetry/7153/
"The Truth the Dead Know" by Anne Sexton
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15298
2007-04-25 09:12:21 · answer #1 · answered by Dancing Bee 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good Death Poems
2016-12-12 09:16:15 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't say who this is for but if its education, its always a good idea to throw something multicultural into the mix:
Try "If we must die" by Claude McKay.
It always helps to show the teacher you can push the edge of the envelope. Figurative rather than literal death could be "Old Ironsides" by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
A LONG poem about death would be "The death of the hired man" by Robert Frost.
2007-04-25 09:32:05 · answer #3 · answered by Necromancer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Stopping By The Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost.
"Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter" by John Crowe Ransom
"The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" by Randall Jarrell
"Ode to the Confederate Dead" by Allen Tate
"Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson
2007-04-25 09:18:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
"Ulalume," Edgar Allan Poe
"Thanatopsis," William Cullen Bryant
2007-04-25 08:49:20 · answer #5 · answered by steve_geo1 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
T.S. Eliot--The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. I see that as a death poem. What about song lyrics? Are they not poetry?
2007-04-25 09:27:28 · answer #6 · answered by teeleecee 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Let me hasten to endorse Steve's choices. Both are powerful and beautiful.
2007-04-25 09:02:23 · answer #7 · answered by john s 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋