Themes in Literature

Literary Death

Death

In Poetics, Aristotle recognized literatureโ€™s value for humanity when he stated that โ€œthe object of art is an imitation of life.โ€ Writers have always used the situations and events of everyday life in their writing, and since death is just as much a part of life as anything else, it is arguably one of the most recurring themes in all of literature. In poetry, fiction, and drama, death is … Read the rest