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	Japanese Death Poems
		death poem or jisei, the essential idea was that at one's final moment of life, one's reflection on death (one's own usually but also death in general) could be especially lucid and meaningful and therefore also constituted an important observation about life.
		The poems are often full of symbols of death, such as the full moon, the western sky, the song of the cuckoo, and images of the season in which the writer died.
		After writing this poem on the morning of his death, he lay down his brush and died sitting upright.
	www.quietspaces.com /deathpoems.html (419 words)

	Death poem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The poem should be graceful, natural, and about neutral emotions adhering to the teachings of Buddhism and Shinto (and possibly Christianity).
		Writing death poems is done by both Chinese and Japanese Zen monks (writing either Chinese style poetry kanshi, waka or haiku), and by many haiku poets, as well as those who wish to write one.
		The poem is written in the waka style (five units long which are usually composed of five, seven, five, seven, and seven syllables).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Death_poem (476 words)

	Encyclopedia: Death poem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Death is the cessation of physical life in a living organism, or the state of the organism after that event.
		Originally used for a type of poetic metre (Elegiac metre), the term elegy is also used for a poem of mourning, from the Greek elegos, a reflection on the death of someone or on a sorrow generally.
		Poems at the Poetry Free-for-all - Death Poem
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Death-poem (1456 words)

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		Donne accuses Death of overthrowing his victims, when in actuality Death allows them to pass through the conjured idea of death as one resembling repose (a pleasurable act), to an eternity where pleasures such as sleep and rest are but a fraction of what awaits those whom Death has claimed.
		In his poem "The Flea", Donne is using his powers of persuasion to tell the listener that sex and being bitten by a flea are in someways alike.
		Death is an event that we all must face as a part of life.
	www.uncp.edu /home/canada/work/markport/lit/introlit/eng203_forum/117.thread (9949 words)

	Paper 5
		Dickinson has a collection of poems about or referring to death; “death is the subject of many of Dickinson’s poems, and death for her is as near, as familiar, as common place even, as love-affairs are in the poems of less self-sufficient poets” (Jennings 106).
		Death is clearly a theme in poem 280, “I felt a funeral in my brain.” In the first line, she refers to a funeral and in line two she mentions mourners; these are unmistakable references to death.
		Another good example of death as a theme is poem 465, “I heard a Fly buzz-- when I died.” The first line is a clue to the theme of the poem with the word “died.” There are images throughout the rest of the poem that reinforce death as the central theme.
	www.arches.uga.edu /~ldemers6/paper.html (2067 words)

	On "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"
		Though in some poems the entrapment is expressed in terms of an air base that cannot be returned to, the essence of the experience as frustration is also symbolized in the separation of mother from child, or in the role of mother as purveyor of death to the child.
		The basic figurative pattern of the poem is a paradoxical one of death being represented in terms of birth.
		The poems under discussion in this chapter are peculiar monodies partly because of the peculiar placement of the poem's speaker and because of the peculiar relation of that speaker to the figure being mourned.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/g_l/jarrell/turret.htm (2762 words)

	death
		The effect this poem seems to have on its reader is to express a sort of relief to the thought of death and how really, it is not the end.
		Death is not mighty or dreadful, but a rest and a wake from life here on earth.
		Her death brought John's long time obsession with death to the surface and it showed in his sermons, poems, and a freaky painting he wanted of himself standing on urn.
	www.stthomasu.ca /~hunt/10060001/death.htm (2218 words)

	[minstrels] Death be not Proud (Holy Sonnets: X) -- John Donne
		In the poems of mutual love, however, Donne's lovers rejoice in the compatibility of their sexual and spiritual love and seek immortality for an emotion that they elevate to an almost religious plane.
		The most sustained of Donne's poems, the Anniversaries, were written to commemorate the death of Elizabeth Drury, the 14-year-old daughter of his patron, Sir Robert Drury.
		Where, O death, is your sting?" The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/796.html (2156 words)

	Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert): The Ship of Death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The only hope (if it is a hope) for us is to be prepared for death by building a "little ark" and stocking it with the essentials to carry us through "the dark flight down oblivion."
		Lawrence wrote this poem when he was terminally ill from tuberculosis in late 1929 or 1930.
		There are several versions of "The Ship of Death" and of "Bavarian Gentians," another death-poem written around the same time.
	endeavor.med.nyu.edu /lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/lawrence1485-des-.html (275 words)

	Poems at the Poetry Free-for-all - Death Poem
		Poems at the Poetry Free-for-all > Amorphous All-Purpose Anarchy > CandC
		As for the poem being morbid humor, yeah, I guess it is. I wasn't really thinking about that when I wrote it though.
		I think you can improve a lot on this poem by changing some of your more dull verbs and phrases, like "walking down the street" and "the truck hit him." Trucks don't just hit people, they assault them, they barrel them over...i don't know, that's my two (or ten) cents...
	www.everypoet.org /pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7320 (1300 words)

	Death and the Long Poem: E.F. Dyck's The Mossbank Canon
		Death is seen here in sure mathematical terms: when the number of jumps tends towards the infinite, the sequence tends towards its converging point, its limit.
		The distinction between life and death as the actualization of the distinction between narrative and discourse can also be justified by the poet's textual strategies, or at least by the perception that the reader has of them: only the two births as events escape the wintry isotopies of the discourse.
		The content of the poems derives from the actual case history of a Chinese immigrant to Canada, from the biographies and writings of Mao Tse Tung, and from the histories of Mossbank and Moose Jaw.
	www.canadianpoetry.ca /cpjrn/vol20/amprimoz.htm (4311 words)

	E110, O'Conner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		She stopped at her grave with death and saw this swelling of the ground, what this means to me is that the grave has already been covered over and her dead body inside has been in there for some time.
		I agree with the concept that Death is Dickinson's lover or suitor in "Because I could not stop for Death." But I think that in the poem, Death more personifies a relationship between a husband and wife and how it changes from youthful courting to old age.
		All the references of what poems should be sort of confused the meaning for me. But after pondering about it for awhile I think what he was saying is that a poem is an extension of not only the writers mind, but also of the readers.
	faculty.millikin.edu /~moconner.hum.faculty.mu/e110/post2.html (1730 words)

	My Yearbook - You've got friends
		Death is what i give you and life is what i take.
		Death and life are forever, can be taken from you or given to you.
		Death is what i live for and life is what i die for.
	www.myyearbook.com /zenhex/poetry.php?poem=12311 (92 words)

	"Healing Itself the Moment it is Condemned": Cohen's Death of a Lady's Man
		The "death" of the lady's man is complemented by the woman "being born," while the "life in Art" exists beyond these births and deaths.
		Death of a Lady's Man is adorned on the front and back covers, on the title page and at the termination of the text with a reproduction of a Renaissance woodblock print depicting the spiritual union of the male and female principle.
		The death is "unstable," "sexless and cannot be used in politics," and is a death that "belongs to the future." We may have a death, but we certainly can't produce a corpse, unless it is the body of the text.
	www.uwo.ca /english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol20/norris.htm (4293 words)

	Write Your Own Japanese Death Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Because Japanese words usually end in one of five vowels, the poems tend not to rhyme, hence the surprising absence of Japanese Death Limericks.
		While a person may write a Turkish Death Poem or a Polish-American Death Poem, the subtleties of true jisei would be lost if coming from the pen of a Western writer who could not comprehend a worldview that saw death as no more lamentable an event than birth or next Wednesday.
		On the other hand, you could try what Nampo Jomyo did: this Zen Buddhist monk wrote a death poem in 1307 in which he correctly predicted his death, one year later to the day.
	www.parentheticalnote.com /tokuken_deathpoetry.htm (861 words)

	In a Dark Time » Japanese Death Poems
		I bought Japanese Death Poems quite by accident nearly a year ago when Leslie remarked on the title as I was browsing the poetry section.
		Each of the poems is accompanied by a short description of the author and his philosophy or the circumstances of his death, but most of the poems need no explanation, standing perfectly well by themselves.
		Though all of these poems are obviously meant as guidance for life, not just how to attain the good death, the two following death poems offer particularly good advice on how to live your life in order to find true happiness.
	www.lorenwebster.net /In_a_Dark_Time/2002/01/23/japanese-death-poems (852 words)

	village voice > dance > Eiko & Koma by Deborah Jowitt
		The pair's luminous new Death Poem is even sparer than last year's Tree Song.
		Except for what sounds like a somber medieval march (played on tape at Death Poem's beginning and end by the Kronos Quartet), the only sounds are of crickets.
		Maybe Death Poem is a time-lapse vision in reverse, or maybe what we're seeing speeds up a process so slow that the human eye can't detect it.
	www.villagevoice.com /dance/0527,jowitt10,65597,14.html (412 words)

	Death Poem: Prayer of a dying man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The death and dying and the life after death has always fascinated man. We want to now the truth behind near death experiences and become certain that there really is a life after death.
		What Becomes Of The Soul After Death by Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj is a departure from the usual line in that it is based, to a great extent, upon authoritative scriptural texts and upon knowledge derived through reasoning, deep reflection and personal meditation.
		It even includes death poems and death poetry, giving a complete picture and a new face of death.
	www.experiencefestival.com /a/Death_Poem/id/9726 (520 words)

	Collins, Billy: Death Beds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Death beds have been around for a long time.
		This poem approaches the topic with a light, but resonant and sure, touch.
		Suddenly, where we least expect it (in the middle of a stanza), the poem engulfs us--"you and I" look forward to lying on our own death beds, and expressing our own last hopes.
	endeavor.med.nyu.edu /lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/collins1681-des-.html (178 words)

	Death In Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Or is it the grave that, in the end, roots the futile poem beneath a coffin it strains to raise from the earth.
		And a peaceful sense of cycle, life to death, and he is buried where he and earth were one.
		There is paradox here: death is a "friend." because the dead are "lucky" to have died and be free of their system-owned lives.
	www.fwointl.com /artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=8&num=354 (875 words)

	On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying - Article
		Dickinson's famous poem describes a peaceful carriage ride as a metaphor for death.
		This poem is the source of the well-known quotation: "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
		A father whose son is born with a brain hernia tries to avoid responsibility for the child, turning to alcohol and an ex-girlfriend in his confusion and anger.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/onourownterms/articles/readinglist2.html (432 words)

	Eiko & Koma: Death Poem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Death Poem is a poetic work for an intimate space that paints a delicate, shimmering picture with color and shadow.
		An ailing body moves unsettlingly yet sensually beneath suspended netting.
		A shadow in the distance might be a memory, a dream, or a loved one beckoning towards death.
	www.eikoandkoma.org /ekdeathpoem.html (73 words)

	DEATH POEMS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		death can get you if your are awake
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	www.poemhunter.com /poems/death (126 words)

	Death poetry - CWSI Archival Video Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		They threatened her to death as she stood very still, I could see the look in their eyesthey just wanted to kill.
		A subcategory of Sad Poems, our Loss from Death poetry section is about losing those we love to the one enemy none can escape.
		Would you agree that enlightenment and death poems of the masters, Chinese and Japanese, are the most important expressions in
	publisher.allinfosites.com /q/publisher-death-poetry.htm (727 words)

	Death of a Child Poem
		You can personalize these death of a child poems by adding your own special title to the poem, and your own 100 character message to the family that has lost a child.
		Father Poems, Father Son Poems, Poems for Dad, Father Daughter Poems
		Daughter Poems, Poem for Daughter, Daughter in Law Poems
	www.poem-and-poems.com /deathofachildpoem.html (871 words)

	Salon: Japanese Death Poems
		Yet it is possible for humans to die both fully conscious and in composure of soul -- as "Japanese Death Poems," edited by Yoel Hoffman, attests.
		The poems collected by Hoffman are part of a centuries-old Japanese tradition in which Zen monks, samurai and others compose poems at the moment of death.
		He wrote this poem on the morning of his death, laid down his brush and died sitting upright.
	www.salon.com /weekly/zen960805.html (429 words)

	Haiga: Simply Haiku
		Basho said that each verse he wrote was in effect his ‘death poem.' This speaks to the practice of mindful living—a deep awareness of the transience of all things.
		It is the period of praying for the repose of the souls of one's ancestors.
		Most people are familiar with the death poems of Basho and Buson, so I have chosen the death poems of lesser known poets.
	www.poetrylives.com /SimplyHaiku/SHv2n5/haiga_modern/carole_macrury (565 words)

	Horace: We All Must Die (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		For Medieval Christians reminders of death were spurs to repentence, so that the believer should escape Hell and spend eternity in Heaven.
		This classic translation of a poem by Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 BCE 8 BCE) was published by the great English poet Samuel Johnson in 1760.
		If, after examining the table of contents of the complete volume, you are interested in considering it for use at your own campus, please contact Paul Brians.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_1/horace.html (401 words)

	Death Poem
		I hereby decree that all loyal citizens of the Empire shall now compose and speak their death poems, so that they will be ready for the Ur-Quan when they arrive.
		Two such nearby death screams ripping down his spine, Toriyama fought the urge to slice through the hull with his blade and fight them himself, naked in space.
		Mingled and blended into incomprehensibility, the death poems of a billion Shofixti filled the room, and then, suddenly, were cut off.
	www.classicgaming.com /starcontrol/scwc/fanfic/death_poem.htm (1614 words)

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