Tag Archives: death and dying

Carrying on a Poetic Quest after a Death

By Robin Bates | Published: September 3, 2013

Now that my father has died, my mother will be taking on sole responsibility for the local newspaper’s poetry column.

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By Robin Bates | Published: August 26, 2013

In the face of death, poetry stands as a bulwark against dissolution, chaos, and madness.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 25, 2013

Silence can be a very powerful response to tragedy.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 23, 2013

Dickinson, Coleridge and Dickens come to mind as we await the moment of my father’s death.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 23, 2013

My father’s poem about Andersen’s “The Little Match Girl” is comforting me as he slides towards death.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 22, 2013

Tolstoy shows us deathbed vigils can spur us to a deeper engagement with life.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 21, 2013

As I read my dying father poems from Blake’s “Songs of Innocence,” I relived cherished memories.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 20, 2013

My father is dying. One of his last acts was to find an A. A. Milne passage about Sewanee’s incessant rain for the local newspaper.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 13, 2013

Fitzgerald’s epigraph to “Great Gatsby” challenges us to live life to the fullest.