Obituary poetry
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Obituary poetry
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Obituary poetry, in the broad sense, includes poems or elegies that commemorate a person's or group of people's deaths. In its stricter sense, though, it refers to a genre of popular verse or folk poetry that had its greatest popularity in the nineteenth century, especially in the United States of America. The genre consists largely of sentimental narrative verse that tells the story of the demise of its typically named subjects and seeks to console their mourners with descriptions of their happ
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Art of creating poems that commemorate a person's or group of people's deaths
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obituary_poetry
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2024-01-26T15:49:05Z
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