Poetic Paraphrase of Two Poems of Early Death:
On the Death of Friends in Childhood" by Donald Justice and Ted Kossler's "A Child's Grave Marker"
To paraphrase a poem is to put the poem's essential, but figurative meaning into a clearer, concise, and more prosaic form. Some might deny that paraphrasing a poem can ever render the true meaning of a poem because poetic meaning, by definition, lies in the images chosen by the author, and the rhythms of language used to express that image. However, attempting to glean the philosophic truth and to tease out the construction of a poem, however imperfectly, can be useful for a student of poetry, even if the true greatness of the poem lies only within the text of the poem itself.
With this in mind, it may be said that both "On the Death of Friends in Childhood" by Donald Justice and Ted Kossler's "A Child's Grave Marker" can be characterized as poems on profound subjects, namely the young and untimely death of children. These poems attempt to...
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The poem that is reviewed in this brief essay is The Very End, as written by Tom Sleigh. As is indicated by the essay assignment prompt, the poem is about Sleigh’s grandmother. This is made quite clear on the page with the poem. Indeed, there is the text “For my grandmother” just below the title of the essay. What follows is a poem that is not terribly long. However, there
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