How Did James Montgomery Change The Idea Of Grief

In W.H. Auden’s “Funeral Blues” (pg. 762), the poem takes place a short time after the speaker’s beloved has died and how the speaker feels that his life has been forever changed and that he will never recover. In Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art” (pg. 767), the poem takes place a short time after the speaker’s beloved has passed away and how she feels that she can master the feeling of losing someone the she loves. However, she seems to be in denial over her true feelings. Between the two poem’s, Auden’s “Funeral Blues” seems to do a better job than  Bishop’s “One Art”, in using rhyme, alliteration, and structure to show the reader the feelings and emotional state of the speaker after their beloved has died.

A closer look at the mourning process will reveal that such a process contains several steps necessary to complete in order to continue on with a life after a beloved has passed. The tasks of mourning by William Worden are examined for insight on the grieving process and what difficulties might be encountered. The grieving process is complex and requires acknowledgement of its importance for bereaving individuals to successfully heal from his/her loss.

In A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful Edmund Burke writes, “It is the nature of grief to keep its object perpetually in its eye, to present it in its most pleasurable views, to repeat all the circumstances that attend to it”. Burke’s writing attempts to clarify the “pictorial, literary, cultural, economic and psychological” phenomenon of sublimity, explicating the ways in which power, vastness, obscurity and beauty intersect to form emotional response. A Philosophical Enquiry elucidates why so many Romantic poets and writers would make grief, mourning and death the subjects of their works; the limitless, obscure, infinite theme death corresponds to the existential, contemplative and introspective ideas Romantic writers were attempting to interrogate. But the subject of death in Romantic literature transcends the topic of corporeal death and explores the death of memory, of youth, of innocence and of the past. Furthermore, the Romantic writers were grappling with a shifting, changing society that caused a sense of pervasive loss in their works; as artists, authors and the population attempted to navigate a society characterized by political revolution and technological innovation, poems about mourning act as almost consolatory works.

There are some things that we do know about this poem. It is most often referred to as an elegy because of the mood of mourning and regret. Upon further reading I discovered that this poem is like others of its time period. Many

Within Bradford’s’ article, Pelaez asserts that the poem “…dramatizes how this struggle to commemorate a lost love not only fails to provide solace, but indeed exacerbates the sorrow of the bereaved” (74). This article clearly shows that this love-laden relationship has greatly been affected by loss leaving the character absorbed in grief. This poem exemplifies overall how relationships broken by loss causes devastation to ones experience and how grief partakes as a key

The shock and catastrophe of the First World War was profound. The elegy was after its original purpose a poem of love and only later modified for poetry of mourning, wherefore it was a poetic form that helped to handle the loss of a person. Before WWI only the individual person was bemoaned and later, after or during WWI, poets started writing elegies to mourn the death of the war’s fallen in general.

The poem “Anastrophe Elegy” by Rebecca Foust tells the story of a woman who falls madly in love with a man. This woman, was the “it girl” she was talented, smart, beautiful, and athletic. She had many different roles in peoples lives such as girlfriend, wife, mother, friend, coach and many more. However, she met a man whom she falls in love with. As a result of love she gives her all to him. She went above and beyond for this man giving up much of herself to make sure he was happy. After spending much of her time and money for the man she loved, he ups and leaves her. When the love of her life left, he not only left with himself but he left with a part of her. The persona says that the woman was not the same after he left. Throughout the poem there is a sense of grief brought on from this tragic relationship and the unwarranted results of the relationship. Although the woman in the story did not die, her spirit did die when the love of her life left. Therefore, the theme of sadness is shown in this poem through the anastrophe structure, style choice of an elegy, and the mood.

When first thought about, love and death seem like two completely different concepts. Death is universally seen as an end to life on Earth which is hard for people to fathom. However, love is seen as an indefinite journey even after death has come to it. The poems discussed in this essay explore those concepts and find similarities between two ideas that seem as different as two things could be. In William Butler Yeats’s “When You Are Old,” and José Emilio Pacheco’s “Ashes,” the physical sense of death and love are explored. And in Shakespeare’s “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?”and John Donne’s “Death be Not Proud,” the metaphysical understanding of the two are analyzed. These poems show that death is an end and love can die, but also,

The rhetorical devices the author uses set a witty, and graceful tone to a poem that should be voiced in grief. The Titanic can be regarded as a great historical tragedy, yet the reader is almost able to feel

The use of consonance provides added depth and texture to the words. The second stanza talks about how grief can cause silence. Techniques used in the second stanza are, rhyme and imagery. The effect of rhyme is simple as just to set the tone in the poem. The third stanza talks about how grief is so bad that you cannot pick yourself up and move.

Death and loss are tragic, but both inevitable. Both Seamus Heaney in his poem "Mid-Term Break" and W.H. Auden in his poem "Funeral Blues" explore the theme of death and how they dealt with the grief after losing someone they love, but both delved into it in different ways. They talk about the anger, shock and the feeling of emptiness after losing someone.

It is not uncommon for media to allow us to think about death without the actuality of losing our love ones. Why is it then that we are often so upset when or favorite characters die in books, movies, or television? They are merely works of fiction passed on to us through text on a page or actors on a screen, and yet, they can often bring us to tears. One might just attribute this to the fact that humans are a sensitive bunch, but perhaps it is something else: deep within us, we all contemplate the meaning of life (and death), so each and every experience with death, especially those in media, remind us of our own mortality. Death has been a popular theme in literature for as long as literature has been around, partly because it was so common prior to the 20th century. Infant mortality, war, disease, and famine were all far more common, even in the western world. In fact, death was so common, one that studies a piece of fiction revolving around death prior to the 20th century would have probably experience a close family death, whereas now, very few people experience a close family death until much later in life. There are three works in particular that truly reflect death in times of sadness, and, unsurprisingly, all of these works were written amidst the cloud of either revolution or war. James Joyce’s “The Dead” from Dubliners sheds positive light on the controversial topic of living a short but fantastic life, or living a long and dull life. The Metamorphosis by Franz

In the poems you have studied a recurring theme is that of ‘loss’. This can take many forms: death; identity; hope or loss of innocence

The poem ‘Remembrance’ by Emily Brontë explores prevalent themes also found in her prose: time, love, and suffering due to loss, from the perspective of a bereaved female, unique within the ‘Gondal Poems’ as most of these ‘enact the death of the beloved’ . Brontë’s intricate poetic artistry creates a poem that powerfully presents death and the multifaceted nature of grief in a way that subverts elegiac traditions and contrasts to the contextual expectations for a woman grieving, espoused by Brontë’s contemporaries. This is achieved through the disjointed metrical form and rhyme scheme that reflect the speaker’s fragmented perception owing to grief, and emphatic imagery that complements this.

The tone in both of the poems remain dark and solemn as expected of elegies and matching the theme of destruction. However, as ‘Lament’ explores the effects of a single event; the tone used is more reflective. The continuous use of the