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Text and music. Portrait of Friedrich Rückert in 1864 by Bertha Froriep [ de] The original Kindertodtenlieder were a group of 428 poems written by Rückert in 1833–34 [ 1] in an outpouring of grief following the illness ( scarlet fever) and death of two of his children. Karen Painter describes the poems thus: "Rückert's 428 poems on the ...
Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils. – William Wordsworth (1802) " I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud " (also sometimes called " Daffodils " [ 2]) is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. [ 3] It is one of his most popular, and was inspired by an encounter on 15 April 1802 during a walk ...
Lines. 14. " Sonnet X ", also known by its opening words as " Death Be Not Proud ", is a fourteen-line poem, or sonnet, by English poet John Donne (1572–1631), one of the leading figures in the metaphysical poets group of seventeenth-century English literature. Written between February and August 1609, it was first published posthumously in 1633.
Little Boy Blue (poem) " Little Boy Blue " is a poem by Eugene Field about the death of a child, a sentimental but beloved theme in 19th-century poetry. Contrary to popular belief, the poem is not about the death of Field's son, who died several years after its publication. Field once admitted that the words "Little Boy Blue" occurred to him ...
The poem describes the poet's idyllic family life with his own three daughters, Alice, Edith, and Anne Allegra: [1] "grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, and Edith with golden hair." As the darkness begins to fall, the narrator of the poem (Longfellow himself) is sitting in his study and hears his daughters in the room above. He describes them as ...
Death poem. The jisei, or death poem, of Kuroki Hiroshi, a Japanese sailor who died in a Kaiten suicide torpedo accident on 7 September 1944. It reads: "This brave man, so filled with love for his country that he finds it difficult to die, is calling out to his friends and about to die". The death poem is a genre of poetry that developed in the ...
Website. jackprelutsky .com. Jack Prelutsky (born September 8, 1940) is an American writer of children's poetry who has published over 50 poetry collections. He served as the first U.S. Children's Poet Laureate (now called the Young People's Poet Laureate) from 2006 to 2008 when the Poetry Foundation established the award.
Erlkönig. " Erlkönig " is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It depicts the death of a child assailed by a supernatural being, the Erlking, a king of the fairies. It was originally written by Goethe as part of a 1782 Singspiel, Die Fischerin . "Erlkönig" has been called Goethe's "most famous ballad". [ 1]