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What is Do Not Go Gentle : Poems for Funerals about?
This wide-ranging selection combines popular choices of traditional poems read at funerals with powerful poems by contemporary writers more tuned to our present age of doubt and disbelief. There are poems here for churchgoers and believers, including classic verses of grief and consolation by John Donne, Christina Rossetti, Emily Bronte and Emily Dickinson, the anonymous Do not stand at my grave and weep, and the poems read at Princess Diana's funeral. But there are also poems for people of all faiths and religions, for agnostics and atheists, and most importantly for those who aren't sure what they believe, whose grief over loss is the more intense for not knowing what happens to the soul after death. Grief isn't denied but experienced and made more bearable by being put into memorable words. Searing poems of lament are followed by moving elegies celebrating the lives of those we will always love. Whether and how the spirit survives is then explored in an extraordinary...
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Neil Astley [Astley, Neil]
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781852246358
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Poetry, Literary Fiction, Humanities
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