Author: Kelly Larsen


  • “It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.”

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  • “After a Death”Tomas Transtromer manages to convey all-consuming emotions in a concise poem

    “After a Death”
    Tomas Transtromer manages to convey all-consuming emotions in a concise poem

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  • “Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.”

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  • “A Mother’s Lament”Robert Burns's poem conveys a mother's perspective on the loss of her son

    “A Mother’s Lament”
    Robert Burns’s poem conveys a mother’s perspective on the loss of her son

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  • Weddings and Funerals

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  • “Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.”

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  • “Alone”Sara Teasdale's poem views life as lonelier than death

    “Alone”
    Sara Teasdale’s poem views life as lonelier than death

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  • “Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.”

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  • “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”Junot Diaz's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel manages to put death in a beautiful light

    “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”
    Junot Diaz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel manages to put death in a beautiful light

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  • “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride!’”

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