Tribute Poems Lamentations Dirge Brief hymn or song Full of grief and lamentation To be sung at a funeral Shorter than an elegy Lament Any poem expressing deep grief Usually written after the death of a loved one ID: 296191
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Sad PoemsTribute PoemsLamentationsSlide2
DirgeBrief hymn or songFull of grief and lamentationTo be sung at a funeralShorter than an elegySlide3Slide4
LamentAny poem expressing deep griefUsually written after the death of a loved oneCan be lamenting a loss other than deathRelated to ELEGY & DIRGESlide5
“Lament” by Edna St. Vincent MillayListen, children:Your father is dead.From his old coatsI'll make you little jackets;I'll make you little trousersFrom his old pants.There'll be in his pocketsThings he used to put there,
Keys and pennies
Covered with tobacco
;
Dan shall have the pennies
To save in his bank;
Anne shall have the keys
To make a pretty noise with.
Life must go on,
And the dead be forgotten;
Life must go on,
Though good men die;
Anne, eat your breakfast;
Dan, take your medicine;
Life must go on;
I forget just why.Slide6
Sorrow is my own yardwhere the new grassflames as it has flamedoften before, but notwith the cold firethat closes round me this year.Thirty-five yearsI lived with my husband.The plum tree is white todaywith masses of flowers.Masses of flowers
load the cherry branches
and color some bushes
yellow and some red
,
but the grief in my heart
is stronger than they,
for though they were my joy
formerly, today I notice themand turn away forgetting.Today my son told methat in the meadows,at the edge of the heavy woodsin the distance, he sawtrees of white flowers.I feel that I would liketo go thereand fall into those flowersand sink into the marsh near them.
“The Widow’s Lament in Springtime” by William Carlos WilliamsSlide7
ElegyAn occasional poem when read at a funeral or memorialLaments & grieves the death of the poem’s subjectSometimes written in meter with a rhyme schemeDifferent than EULOGY – a eulogy is a speech for a funeral or memorialSlide8
PanegyricPoem of praise & tributeRelated to eulogy & odeHighly praises the subject of the poemBen Johnson wrote a panegyric praising William Shakespeare. Anne Bradstreet wrote one praising Queen Elizabeth.Slide9
EpitaphShort poem Meant as an inscription on a tombstoneSlide10
“Bread and Music” by Conrad AikenMusic I heard with you was more than music,And bread I broke with you was more than bread;Now that I am without you, all is desolate;All that was once so beautiful is dead.Your hands once touched this table and this silver,And I have seen your fingers hold this glass.
These things do not remember you,
belovèd
,
And yet your touch upon them will not pass.
For it was in my heart you moved among them,
And blessed them with your hands and with your eyes;
And in my heart they will remember always,—
They knew you once, O beautiful and wise.Slide11
“Do not stand at my grave and weep” by Mary Elizabeth FryeDo not stand at my grave and weep:I am not there; I do not sleep.I am a thousand winds that blow,I am the diamond glints on snow,I am the sun on ripened grain,I am the gentle autumn rain.When you awaken in the morning’s hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the soft
starshine
at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry:
I am not there; I did not die.