Article - Death Poem: Birth And Death
A poem about birth and death. The death and dying and the life after death has always fascinated man. This is an excerpt from the boo...   » Read the article

Article - Death Poem: Prayer Of A Dying Man
A death poem from Isavasya Upanisha. The death and dying and the life after death has always fascinated man. This is an excerpt from ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death Poem: Encyclopedia - Death Poem
A death poem (辞世の句: jisei no ku) is a poem written near the time of one's own death. It is a tradition for literate persons to wr...   » Read the article

Article - Death Poetry: What Is Real Death?
A poem about death. The death and dying and the life after death has always fascinated man. This is an excerpt from the book What Bec...   » Read the article

Article - Poem About Life: What Is Real Life?
A poem about life and death. The death and dying and the life after death has always fascinated man. This is an excerpt from the book ...   » Read the article

Article - Rebirth: A Poem On Rebirth
A poem on rebirth. The death and dying and the life after death has always fascinated man. This is an excerpt from the book What Beco...   » Read the article

Article - Life After Death: What Becomes Of The Soul After Death
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...   » Read the article

Article - Soul�s Journey After Death: Soul�s Journey After Death
The soul accompanied by the chief vital air (Mukhya Prana), the sense-organs and the mind and taking with itself Avidya, good and evil ac...   » Read the article

Article - Lokas Or Planes: The City Of Justice
Lord Yama is the King of justice. His city is built of diamonds and jewels. It is effulgent and impregnable. It is full of palaces and ma...   » Read the article

Article - Lokas Or Planes: Goloka
Kine form high and excellent energy. The gift of kine is highly spoken of. Those good men, who, shorn of pride, make gift of kine, are co...   » Read the article

Article - Reincarnation: Karma And Reincarnation - Ii
The doctrine of reincarnation is accepted by the majority of mankind at the present day. It has been held as true by the mightiest Easter...   » Read the article

Article - What Is Death?: The Phenomenon Of Death
Death is separation of the soul from the physical body. Death becomes the starting point of a new and better life. Death does not end you...   » Read the article

Article - What Is Death?: Signs Of Death
It is very difficult to find out the real signs of death. Stoppage of the heart-beat, stoppage of the pulse or breathing are not the actu...   » Read the article

Article - Buddhist Quotes: Of Birth And Death
Buddhist Quotes: Of Birth and Death   Studying Zen, learning the way, is originally for the sake of birth and death, no other t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orpheus: Encyclopedia - Orpheus
In Greek legend, Orpheus was the chief representative of the arts of song and the lyre, and of great importance in the religious history ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kālidāsa: Encyclopedia - Kālidāsa
Kālidāsa (कालिदास) is arguably India's greatest Sanskrit poet and dramatist, his title Kavikulaguru ('Preceptor of All P...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lament: Encyclopedia - Lament
A lament or dirge is a song or poem expressing grief or regret. Many of the oldest and most lasting poems in human history have been lame...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Wordsworth: Encyclopedia - William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850) was a major English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arctinus Of Miletus: Encyclopedia - Arctinus Of Miletus
Arctinus of Miletus was one of the earliest poets of Greece and contributors to the Epic Cycle. He flourished probably about 650 BC. His ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vixakha Bouxa: Encyclopedia - Vixakha Bouxa
The Vixakha Bouxa festival is the Lao version of the Visakha Puja. It commemorates the birth, enlightenment, and death of the Buddha. It ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Callimachus: Encyclopedia - Callimachus
Callimachus (ca. 305 BC- ca. 240 BC) was a Greek poet and grammarian, a native of Cyrene and a descendant of the illustrious house of the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Balm Of Gilead: Encyclopedia - Balm Of Gilead
Balm of Gilead is a healing compound made from the resinous gum of a bush which grew plentifully in the area of Gilead. This compound cam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antimachus: Encyclopedia - Antimachus
Antimachus, of Colophon or Claros, Greek poet and grammarian, flourished about 400 BC. Scarcely anything is known of his life. His poetic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1210: Encyclopedia - 1210
1210 - Events. End of the reign of Emperor Tsuchimikado, emperor of Japan Emperor Juntoku ascends to the throne of Japan Otto IV, Hol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crantor: Encyclopedia - Crantor
Crantor was a Greek philosopher of the Old Academy, born probably about the middle of the 4th century BC, at Soli in Cilicia. He was a fe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1811 In Literature: Encyclopedia - 1811 In Literature
See also: 1810 in literature, other events of 1811, 1812 in literature, list of years in literature. 1811 in literature - Events. 1811 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1327: Encyclopedia - 1327
1327 - Events. January 25 - Edward III becomes King of England. beginning of reign of Alfonso IV of Aragon. Petrarch sees a woman he n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yoshitoshi: Encyclopedia - Yoshitoshi
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839 - June 9, 1892) (Japanese: 月岡 芳年; also named Taiso Yoshitoshi 大蘇　芳年) was the last great maste...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bishop Beilby Porteus: Encyclopedia - Bishop Beilby Porteus
Rt Rev Beilby Porteus, DD, Bishop of Chester and London (May 8, 1731 – May 13, 1809) was an Anglican reformer and leading abolitionist....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lady Of The Lake: Encyclopedia - Lady Of The Lake
In an Arthurian legend, the Lady of the Lake is the name of several related characters who play integral parts in the stories. These char...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Virgil: Encyclopedia - Virgil
Publius Vergilius Maro (October 15, 70 BC–19 BC), known in English as Virgil or Vergil, is a Latin poet, the author of the Eclogues, th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nikolay Gumilyov: Encyclopedia Ii - Nikolay Gumilyov - Later Poems And Death
In 1920 Gumilyov co-founded the All-Russia Union of Writers. Gumilyov made no secret of his anti-communist views. He also crossed himself...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edvard Munch: Encyclopedia Ii - Edvard Munch - Frieze Of Life — A Poem About Life Love And Death
In December 1893, Unter den Linden in Berlin held an exhibition of Munch's work, showing, among other pieces, six paintings entitled Stud...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hafez: Encyclopedia Ii - Hafez - After Death; Collected Works
There is no definitive version of his collected works (or diwan); editions vary from 573 to 994 poems. In Iran, his collected works have ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orpheus: Encyclopedia Ii - Orpheus - The Post-classical Orpheus
In the Divine Comedy Dante sees the shade of Orpheus along with those of numerous other "virtuous pagans" in Limbo. This story of Orpheus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nikolay Gumilyov: Encyclopedia Ii - Nikolay Gumilyov - War Experience
When the WWI started, Gumilyov rushed to Russia and enthusiastically joined a corps of elite cavalry. For his bravery he was invested wit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nikolay Gumilyov: Encyclopedia Ii - Nikolay Gumilyov - Guild Of Poets
In 1910, Gumilyov fell under the spell of the Symbolist poet and philosopher Vyacheslav Ivanov and absorbed his views on poetry at the ev...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nikolay Gumilyov: Encyclopedia Ii - Nikolay Gumilyov - Early Life And Poems
Nikolai was born in Kronstadt, into a family of a naval physician Stepan Yakovlevich Gumilev (1836—1920) and Anna Ivanovna L'vova (1854...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edgar Allan Poe: Encyclopedia Ii - Edgar Allan Poe - Literary And Artistic Theory
In his essay "The Poetic Principle" Poe argued that there is no such thing as a long poem, since the ultimate purpose of art is aesthetic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edgar Allan Poe: Encyclopedia Ii - Edgar Allan Poe - Notable Works
Edgar Allan Poe - Poems. A Dream (1827) (Full Text at Wikisource) A Dream Within a Dream (1827) (Full Text at Wikisource) Dreams (1827...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orpheus: Encyclopedia Ii - Orpheus - Orphic Poems And Rites
A large number of Greek religious poems in hexameter were attributed to Orpheus, as they were to similar miracle-man figures like Bakis, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orpheus: Encyclopedia Ii - Orpheus - Death Of Orpheus
According to a Late Antique summary of Aeschylus's lost play Bassarids, Orpheus at the end of his life disdained the worship of all gods ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edvard Munch: Encyclopedia Ii - Edvard Munch - Biography
Born on December 12th, 1863, Løten, Norway, Munch grew up in Christiania (now Oslo). He was related to painter Jacob Munch (1776 – 183...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orpheus: Encyclopedia Ii - Orpheus - Overview
The name Orpheus does not occur in Homer or Hesiod, but he was known in the time of Ibycus (c. 530 BC). Pindar (522—442 BC) speaks of h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hafez: Encyclopedia Ii - Hafez - Life
Very little credible information is known about Hafez's life, particularly its early part - there is a great deal of more or less mythica...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hafez: Encyclopedia Ii - Hafez - One Of His Poems
Without the beloved’s face, the rose is not pleasant. Without wine, spring is not pleasant. The border of the sward and the air of the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orpheus: Encyclopedia Ii - Orpheus - Death Of Eurydice
But the most famous story in which he figures is that of his wife Eurydice. Eurydice is sometimes known as Agriope. While fleeing from Ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edgar Allan Poe: Encyclopedia Ii - Edgar Allan Poe - Memoir - Griswold's Biography Of Edgar Allan Poe
The day Edgar Allan Poe was buried, a long obituary appeared in the New York Tribune signed "Ludwig". The piece began, "Edgar Allan Poe i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hafez: Encyclopedia Ii - Hafez - After Death; Influence
Not much acclaimed in his own day and often exposed to the reproaches of orthodoxy, he greatly influenced subsequent Persian poets, and l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kālidāsa: Encyclopedia Ii - Kālidāsa - His Poems
In addition to his plays, Kalidasa wrote two surviving epic poems Raghuvamsha (Dynasty of Raghu) and Kumarasambhava (Birth of the War God...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edgar Allan Poe: Encyclopedia Ii - Edgar Allan Poe - The Life Of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and actor David Poe, Jr. His father ab...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edgar Allan Poe: Encyclopedia Ii - Edgar Allan Poe - Death
On October 3, 1849 Poe was found on the streets of Baltimore, delirious and "in great distress, and... in need of immediate assistance," ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edgar Allan Poe: Encyclopedia Ii - Edgar Allan Poe - Legacy And Lore
Poe's works have had a broad influence on American and World literature (sometimes even despite those who tried to resist it), and even o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kālidāsa: Encyclopedia Ii - Kālidāsa - His Death
As in life he is a mystery at its end. Legend has it that he was murdered by a courtesan in Sri Lanka during the reign of Kumaradasa. But...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kālidāsa: Encyclopedia Ii - Kālidāsa - His Plays
Three famous plays written by Kalidasa are Mālavikāgnimitra (Mālavikā and Agnimitra), Vikramuurvashiiya (Pertaining to Vikrama and Ur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kālidāsa: Encyclopedia Ii - Kālidāsa - The Date Of Kalidasa
The exact dates of Kalidasa's life are disputed. These range from the 1st century BC to the 5th Century AD. Kalidasa's play Mālavikāgn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jens Bjørneboe: Encyclopedia Ii - Jens Bjørneboe - Death And Legacy
After having struggled with depression and alcoholism for a long time, he committed suicide on May 9th, 1976. Bjorneboe was described in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kālidāsa: Encyclopedia Ii - Kālidāsa - His Life
Not much is known about Kalidasa's personal life and background, but there are several myths and legends about it.From his works he comes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - James Keir Baxter: Encyclopedia Ii - James Keir Baxter - Selected Works
James Keir Baxter - Posthumously published. Runes, 1973. Two Obscene Poems, 1974 Barney Flanagan and Other Poems, read by James K. Bax...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Margaret Cavendish: Encyclopedia Ii - Margaret Cavendish - Poems And Fancies 1653
Poems and Fancies is a collection of poems, epistles and some prose written by Cavendish on a variety of themes. Topics addressed in Cav...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Der Erlkönig: Encyclopedia Ii - Der Erlkönig - Summary
Goethe's poem begins with a young boy being brought to either the court or back to his home by his father, perhaps a farmer or some sort ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mikhail Lermontov: Encyclopedia Ii - Mikhail Lermontov - Works
During his lifetime, Lermontov published only one slender collection of poems (1840). Three volumes, much mutilated by the censorship, we...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Hardy: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Hardy - Poetry
In 1898 Hardy published his first volume of poetry, Wessex Poems, a collection of poems written over 30 years. Hardy claimed poetry was h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antun Branko Šimić: Encyclopedia Ii - Antun Branko Šimić - Works
Šimić did not write a large literary opus during his lifetime. However, some of his poems could be called anthological, like Pjesnici (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Lady Of Shalott: Encyclopedia Ii - The Lady Of Shalott - Overview
The poem (of which Tennyson wrote two versions: one in 1833, of twenty verses, the other in 1842 of nineteen verses) is commonly believed...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aithiopis: Encyclopedia Ii - Aithiopis - Content
In current critical editions only five lines survive of the Aithiopis' original text. We are almost entirely dependent on a summary of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - James Merrill: Encyclopedia Ii - James Merrill - Works By Merrill
Since his death, Merrill's work has been anthologized in three divisions: Collected Poems, Collected Prose, and Collected Novels and Play...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Statius: Encyclopedia Ii - Statius - Silvae
The subjects of the Silvae vary widely. Five poems are devoted to flattery of the emperor and his favourites; but of these enough has alr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Perceval The Story Of The Grail: Encyclopedia Ii - Perceval The Story Of The Grail - The Poem
The poem opens with Perceval, whose mother has raised him apart from civilization in the forests of Wales since his father's death, encou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abu Nuwas: Encyclopedia Ii - Abu Nuwas - Exile And Imprisonment
Abu Nuwas was forced to flee to Egypt for a time, after he wrote an elegiac poem praising the Barmakis, the powerful family which had bee...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wilfred Owen: Encyclopedia Ii - Wilfred Owen - Poetry
Owen is regarded by some as the leading poet of the First World War, known for his war poetry on the horrors of trench and gas warfare. M...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mathurin Régnier: Encyclopedia Ii - Mathurin Régnier - Works
About the time of his death numerous collections of licentious and satirical poems were published, while others remained in manuscript. G...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tomte: Encyclopedia Ii - Tomte - The Modern Tomte
In the 1840's the farm's "nisse" became the bearer of Christmas presents in Denmark, and was then called "julenisse". In 1881, the Swedis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pat Ingoldsby: Encyclopedia Ii - Pat Ingoldsby - Pat's Influences
Most of Pat's poems are about his personal experiences, observations of life in Dublin, or mildly surreal humorous possibilities. Topics ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Raven: Encyclopedia Ii - The Raven - Interpretation
The poem, like other works by Poe such as "The Black Cat", "The Imp of the Perverse" and "The Tell-Tale Heart", is a study of guilt or "p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Miguel De Unamuno: Encyclopedia Ii - Miguel De Unamuno - Poetry
For Unamuno, art was a way of expressing spiritual problems. His themes were the same in his poetry as in his novels: spiritual anguish, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pier Paolo Pasolini: Encyclopedia Ii - Pier Paolo Pasolini - Biography
Pasolini was born in Bologna, traditionally the most leftist of Italian cities. He was the son of a soldier who became famous for saving ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phillis Wheatley: Encyclopedia Ii - Phillis Wheatley - Wheatley's Poetry
In 1770 she wrote a poetic tribute on the death of the Calvinist George Whitefield that received widespread acclaim in Boston. Her poetry...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Blake's Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - William Blake's Mythology - The Fall Of Albion
The longest elaboration of this private myth-cycle was also his longest poem - The Four Zoas: The Death and Judgment of Albion The Ancien...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ynglingatal: Encyclopedia Ii - Ynglingatal - The Late Origin Hypothesis
The authenticity of this poem has been questioned by Krag (1991), who believed it to be a 12th century propaganda work fabricated to enha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Suicide: Encyclopedia Ii - Suicide - Suicide In Literature
Suicide has been used as a dramatic plot element in a number of literary works, such as Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina, The Awakening, Rome...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Suicide Note: Encyclopedia Ii - Suicide Note - Usefulness
The most common reasons in favor of writing a suicide note are: Easing pain - To make the death easier for those left behind, often by e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Waste Land: Encyclopedia Ii - The Waste Land - The Manuscript Drafts Of The Poem
Eliot sent the manuscript drafts of the poem to John Quinn in October 1922; they reached Quinn in New York in January 1923. On Quinn's de...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Noir Anime: Encyclopedia Ii - Noir Anime - The Series
Noir begins as a fairly normal action anime, but later (with the appearance of Chloe) becomes more psychological. The series has a very s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Seamus Heaney: Encyclopedia Ii - Seamus Heaney - Bibliography
Poetry Death of a Naturalist (Faber & Faber, 1966) Door into the Dark (Faber & Faber, 1969) Wintering Out (Faber & Faber, 19...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mu'allaqat: Encyclopedia Ii - Mu'allaqat - The Seven Renowned Ones
The lives of these poets were spread over a period of more than a hundred years. The earliest of the seven was Imru' al-Qais, regarded by...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Barbour: Encyclopedia Ii - John Barbour - The Brus
The Brus, in 14,000 octosyllabic lines and twenty books, is a narrative poem with a purpose partly historical, partly patriotic. It celeb...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Richard Eberhart: Encyclopedia Ii - Richard Eberhart - Early Career 1904 To 1945
Eberhart was born in 1904 in Austin, a small town in southeast Minnesota. He grew up on a 40 acre (162,000 m²) estate called Burr Oaks w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bishop Henry: Encyclopedia Ii - Bishop Henry - The Legend
Very few facts are known about the real causes for Henry's death, but the incident is full of the hallmarks of legend. A folk poem from t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kaiulani: Encyclopedia Ii - Kaiulani - After Death
Scottish poet Robert Louis Stevenson memorialized Ka‘iulani in an often quoted poem. "Forth from her land to mine she goes, the island ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Seppuku: Encyclopedia Ii - Seppuku - Ritual
In time, committing seppuku came to involve a detailed ritual. Dressed ceremonially, with his sword placed in front of him and sometimes ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dísir: Encyclopedia Ii - Dísir - Corpus
Dísir briefly appear in a couple of Eddic and skaldic poems, and in various kennings. In Grímnismál, the wise Grímnir (Odin) makes a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Merlin Wizard: Encyclopedia Ii - Merlin Wizard - Merlinus Caledonensis Myrddin Wyllt
This Myrddin had nothing to do with Arthur and flourished after the Arthurian period. The earliest Welsh poems that concern the Myrddin l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Russian Humour: Encyclopedia Ii - Russian Humour - Black Humour
Apart from jokes, Russian humour is expressed in plays on words and short poems including nonsense and black humour verses, similar to so...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gavin Douglas: Encyclopedia Ii - Gavin Douglas - Literary Work
Douglas's literary work, now his chief claim to be remembered, belongs, as has been stated, to the period 1501-1513, when he was provost ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia Ii - William Shakespeare - Reputation
Shakespeare's reputation has grown considerably since his own time. During his lifetime and shortly after his death, Shakespeare was well...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Slough: Encyclopedia Ii - Slough - Criticism Of Slough
Slough has been the subject of much derision. The poet John Betjeman wrote, in his 1937 poem Slough as a protest against the 850 factorie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iliad: Encyclopedia Ii - Iliad - The Story Of The Iliad
The Iliad narrates several weeks of action during the tenth and final year of the Trojan War, concentrating on the wrath of Achilles. It ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Randall Jarrell: Encyclopedia Ii - Randall Jarrell - Career
His first collection of poetry, Blood from a Stranger, was published in 1942 — the same year he enlisted in the United States Army Air ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Dream Of Gerontius: Encyclopedia Ii - The Dream Of Gerontius - Synopsis
Newman's poem tells the story of a soul's journey through death, and provides a meditation on the unseen world of Roman Catholic theology...   » Read the article