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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FUNERAL, by VYACHESLAV IVANOVICH IVANOV Poem Explanation Poet's Biography
First Line: Of funerals, the saddest
Last Line: And gods: the resurrector.
Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Burials
First Line: Of funerals, the saddest
Last Line: And gods: the resurrector.
Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Burials
Of funerals, the saddest
Is love's that dies unanswered.
The soul has two to bury:
The soul of the beloved
And its own other selfhood.
And a third enters, living,
The funeral flame that wraps them;
His wings a yoke has weighted:
Him the wise lips of lovers
Call in their kisses, Eros,
And gods: the Resurrector.
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