For the characters in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, movement is an important part of life. The second is after death. They rely on each other to move and make constant movement. Friends uses physical movement throughout the story as a way to develop a sense of exercise, a sense of determination to live, and to avoid […]
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The Process of Grieving and Dealing with Death in W. H. Auden’s Famous Poem “Stop All the Clocks, Cut Off the Telephone”
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W. H. Auden has written an unusual response to death in “Stop All the Clocks, Cut Off the Telephone.” The title itself demands that seemingly unreasonable actions be carried out. Why should all the clocks be stopped? Why should the telephone be cut off? The normal events of daily life, such as clocks ticking, telephones […]
My father passed away suddenly on May 19, 2006. He was only 45 years old and this came as a great shock to everyone who loved and knew him. Autopsy results later revealed that my father had died of a massive heart attack. The first reaction I had when I heard that my father passed […]
Dealing with death is a process that everyone goes through at their own pace and in their own way. For it is never easy to lose a loved one, whether suddenly or unexpectedly. Cancer is one way in which someone can lose a family member or a friend and when he watches them weaken before […]