Showing posts with label graveyard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label graveyard. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Fog



"It wraps you in
 its ghostly arms,
a gray and clammy thing.
Yet if you move,
it lets you go
and never says a thing."


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Thursday, July 17, 2014

"Eerie"



The "Graveyard Poets", also termed “Churchyard Poets” or "the Boneyard Boys” were a number of pre-Romantic English poets of the 18th century characterised by their gloomy meditations on mortality, 'skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms' elicited by the presence of the graveyard. Moving beyond the elegy lamenting a single death, their purpose was rarely sensationalist. As the century progressed, "graveyard" poetry increasingly expressed a feeling for the 'sublime' and uncanny, and an antiquarian interest in ancient English poetic forms and folk poetry. The "graveyard poets" are often reckoned as precursors of the Gothic literature genre.

from Wikipedia article found here

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