Mourning

Wolfelt Bereavement Responses SELECT: Throughout our life, we create relationships with people, and perhaps one of the most difficult stages in life is when we have to deal with the death of a family member. As expressed by Greenberg (2013) mourning a love one implies changes, which also add distress to a person's life. How to understand such critical moments in life? In examining this process, Dr. Alan Wolfelt (2003) describes the six most common patterns (or stages) of bereavement that a…

Kindred Spirits, composed by Brian Balmages, was chosen as our second piece for CMEA because of its beauty and the contrast it offers to itself and the set as a whole. The other two pieces are intricate but don’t offer the same contrast or meaning that Kindred Spirits does. Kindred Spirits is the most contrasting piece we have in our CMEA set. Kindred Spirits is unlike any other musical piece. It was written for a memorial concert for the death of two boys, but it was also written for their…

the skull, she wrapped it in sacred white sage and carried it back to the village in a soft leather bag. By retrieving the skull and adding it to the skull circle, women reunited her relatives with their clan. Not only did it provide closure for mourning relatives, but this practice demonstrated the significance of physical connections within the can and the ongoing spiritual belonging of clan members even after death. This ongoing belonging was exemplified in the construction of skull…

The Traditional Belief System- Lifestyle Cherokee Indians are a small portion of Native Americans, however their culture is slowly declining as time goes on. There are many Cherokee ancestry all around the world, including myself, but there are only around 288,500 federally recognized citizens that still belong to a Cherokee tribe. As this culture can seem difficult to understand from its complexity, it is actually quite simple. There are still many elements used today that are from the…

The setting of the night also contributes to a mood of sadness because night is typically associated with depression or sadness. This feeling of sadness that is created shows that the author was trying to convey mournfulness, because when mourning someone close, it is a tragic experience. Images later on in the poem relate relate to mournfulness, because they relate to religion. When in times of hardship or confusion, many people chose to turn to their religion for help and guidance. This…

brother’s death. As the speaker arrives at his home he is greeted by his family, and friends mourning his loss with him. A few hours later the ambulance arrives with his brother’s body cleaned up, and bandaged by the nurses. The following morning he makes his way up to his sibling’s bedside to say his goodbyes. By analyzing the images and diction in the poem, a reader can come to understand the tone of mourning, numbness, and sorrow. The speaker begins on a gloomy note, revealing that he is…

Fraternity on the Frontlines: Fictive Kinship and the Great War Noting how “[i]n every combatant country there emerged groups of people whose business it was to help each other recover from [the First World War’s] traumatic consequences,” Jay Winter borrows anthropology’s idea of ‘fictive kin’ to denote close relationships between “particular groups of survivors, whose bond is social and experiential…as opposed to those linked by blood bonds or marriage” (47, 40). Winter argues for a link that…

When you think of Persephone, think of when a coin is tossed and lands on its side. For a moment it is neither heads nor tails but you can see both. Persephone, (or Kore by her other name) is like this, in the fact that she is both life and death, both Spring and Winter. Her personality as innocent as the flowers she is picking changes to cold and callous as she is abducted by Hades and made to be Queen of the underworld through deceit and ill made deals. Jealousy plays a theme in Persephone’s…

The Locket is a short story written by Kate Chapin, Kate Chapin was a young women who married a man named Oscar Chapin, together they settled in Louisiana, were most of the culture influenced Kate Chapin’s novels. Oscar Chapin died in 1883, and Kate Chapin started to write many short stories and novels that were published in magazines. Due to Oscar Chapin’s death, Kate Chapin’s novels all have a similar theme of loss and suffering. The short story, The Locket, was displayed during the Civil War…

In the poem we have just read by Anne Bradstreet she discusses how she is mourning the lost of her things that went up in flames. In the poem she goes back in forth on whether she is upset about the loss of her personal items, or she, is okay with it because god gave her those things and he is allowed to take them back. At the very end of the poem you realize how she truly feels when Bradstreet says, “My hope and treasure lies above”(Bradstreet, 29). This quote is said she is okay with the loss…