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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 death of children became singular, almost manic documents of the psychological ...
Matthew Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek (July 17, 1990 – June 22, 2004), known as Mattie J.T. Stepanek, was an American poet (or, as he wanted to be remembered, "a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played") [ 2] who published seven best-selling books of poetry and peace essays. Before his death at the age of 13, he had become known as a ...
The basic theme of the poem is the relationship between suffering and art. It shows how a boy matures into a poet through his experience of love and death. Art is a sublimation of frustrations and death is a release from the stress and strains caused by such frustrations. The language is similar to "There Was a Child Went Forth".
Memento mori (Latin for "remember (that you have) to die") [ 2] is an artistic or symbolic trope acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death. [ 2] The concept has its roots in the philosophers of classical antiquity and Christianity, and appeared in funerary art and architecture from the medieval period onwards.
Eleanor Farjeon (13 February 1881 – 5 June 1965) was an English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire. [ 1] Several of her works had illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Some of her correspondence has also been published.
Dorothy Miles. Dorothy "Dot" Miles (née Squire; 19 August 1931 - 30 January 1993) was a Welsh poet and activist in the Deaf community. Throughout her life, she composed her poems in English, British Sign Language, and American Sign Language. Her work laid the foundations for modern sign language poetry in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Ida Mae Roberson. . ( m. 1940) . Countee Cullen (born Countee LeRoy Porter; May 30, 1903 – January 9, 1946) was an American poet, novelist, children's writer, and playwright, particularly well known during the Harlem Renaissance.
Relatives. Thomas Vaughan. Henry Vaughan (17 April 1621 – 23 April 1695) was a Welsh metaphysical poet, author and translator writing in English, and a medical physician. His religious poetry appeared in Silex Scintillans in 1650, with a second part in 1655. [ 1] In 1646 his Poems, with the Tenth Satire of Juvenal Englished was published.