Poetry Anthology

[agoraoptera]

So, I'm doing an anthology of poems for a class assignment and being limited in poetry knowledge, I figured I'd ask you guys for help I'm supposed to gather a total of ten poems and write responses to five of them and the poems must be of the same theme. So, you guys have any poems to recommend with the theme of Death/Transitions/Grief? Or, may as well, any of your favourite poems?

On a side note, I realise of course that we already have a poetry thread, but, well, I'm mining specifically for an assignment, so I didn't want to pollute that thread..

[Endless Sea]

Eh, I figure this is as good a time as any to rewrite one of my old ones. Luckily, I've already got something that fits the theme, regardless of quality...

[eli_gone_crazy]

Poe, Dickinson, and for some reason I want to say Hemingway, though I can't think of any specific examples.

[JackAlsworth]

Seconding Dickinson. "There's Been a Death" fits your theme perfectly.

(I did an assignment like this several years ago, but our teacher let us use a bunch of song lyrics, which it sounds like isn't what your teacher is looking for.)

[IslaKariese]

One Art by Bishop is a poem about loss that could translate to death if looked at from a specific angle...

[Victin]

Oh, hey, I think I can get one or two brazilian poems here, is there any problem?

EDIT: There are plenty more of Death basedd poems in that book that I remembered. If I manage to find more in English (I originally was aiming for 4 of them, but I couldn't find one) I'll post here if you want me to. Wait, it seems I overestimated one of their translations, but Pixel offered help, so I'll see with him. In the meantime, take two of his poems.

These two are the same poem, but the verse arrangment is slightly different from the one in my book at the end, and the verse disposition is something very important in poems, but for lack of a better arrangment, I'm posting both of them.

And here is the second one. I'm not even bothering to find a translation for this one, because if we who speak Portuguese are supposed to read it like this, I'm not even sure how it'd be translated.

[H22]

Keats' La Belle Dame Sans Merci?

[Qara-Xuan Zenith]

I'm not really here and don't really have time, but Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven is the epitome of what you're looking for, and also the best poem on earth.

[eli_gone_crazy]

I'm not really here and don't really have time, but Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven is the epitome of what you're looking for, and also the best poem on earth.

I think he told me that it doesn't fit his thesis.

[narrativedilettante]

I am still not really here and I don't know if you're still looking for poems for this assignment but I have to link you one of my FAVORITE POEMS EVER. "After Death" by Christina Rossetti.

[Victin]

-derail: ON-

I think there's a new brazilian TV series about some of Poe's poems. It's a terror show, so all I know of it is the advertisement, which is about "Edgar", who works as a killer... Of bugs, insects, etc. But he has seen some stuff (insert random pics with screams here). It's called "Edgar's Tales" or something like that.

-derail: OFF-