Word: epitaphs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jarrell's sudden death hasn't been as anonymous, and the Committee of memorialists has contrived to write something far more elaborate than the "anything will do" he asked for as an epitaph. Buried in this courteous and often adoring book are kernels of the familiar sad story of the American artist that poured out in Jarrell's poems. He was recovering or perhaps failing to recover from a nervous breakdown that October in North Carolina. "When I last saw him, not long before his death," Arendt writes, "the laughter was almost gone and he was ready to admit defeat...
...background, pulsating egg yokes and mustard stains move about in the gloom. Berry jiggles the guitar on his hip and wades into the microphone. An epitaph flashes onto his ancient face, "Pyrex--Made in U.S.A...
...country. Even so, 200 small towns have disappeared in the past 20 years, and they will almost certainly be depopulated at an even greater rate for years to come. If Lady Bird had no instant panacea for the vanishing America, she at least gave it a heart-plucking epitaph: "Here lies fresh air, a place to play, friendly neighbors. It was great while it lasted...
Housman's famous "Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries...
...epitaph, she once wryly suggested "Excuse my dust." But she also wrote, in her "Epitaph for a Darling Lady," the sentimental last stanza...