What are the examples of an epitaph poem?

Answer 1

Dangerous Dan Lies In Peace

He Shouldn't Of Played With His niece

OR

She walked by the ocean.

Cold, hard, and grey.

Then lifting her head,

She knelt down to pray.

It was too late,

And she had given up.

So

I'm sorry, she said.

In the next hour she was dead.

Answer 2

An elegy is a poem that usually laments the death of a loved one or a public figure.

Examples are:

'Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard' by Thomas Gray

'Lycadis' by John Milton

'Astrophel' by Edmund Spenser

'Adonais' by Percy Shelley

Ovid has many books that contain lots of elegies that are part of a huge collection.

The list goes on but just searching Google will give you endless lists of elegies :)

Answer 3

Epitaph poems seldom had a title for they were written not on paper for books or for publication but were meant to be chiselled or inscribed on plaques over burial places and tombs. Anyway, due to their poetical quality or strangeness, many of them found their way into books with appropriate titles added. There have been the strangest of poems written as epitaphs. Here is one which is written by Samuel Johnson in his boyhood when he walked over a duckling and killed it.

Here lies good master duck
Whom Samuel Johnson trod on.

Answer 4

An epitaph poem is a short poem or verse written in memory of a deceased person. An example of an epitaph poem is W. H. Auden's "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone," which became famous from the movie "Four Weddings and a Funeral." Another example is Emily Dickinson's epitaph poem, "Called Back."

Answer 5

The poem "Epitaph" by Nicanor Paraa (Translated by Wayne Tompskins) is a great poem if you would like a theme based on an epitaph.

Answer 6

1. 9 words that tell you about something or someone
2. 9 powerful words to say if you love them

Answer 7

I hate every one even u I hate u u fatty Gap teeth scarey

Answer 8

There are a lot of examples online. You can look through a couple of your favorites and turn them around to meet your needs.

Answer 9

A gravestone poem

A etched poem

etc.

epitaph is something that was carved into a record