The Academy of American Poets - Poems for Weddings
The epithalamium was employed as a literary form for the first time by Sappho, who wrote:
Raise up the roof-tree--
a wedding song!
High up, carpenters--
a wedding song!
The bridegroom is coming,
the equal of Ares,
much bigger than a big man.
It’s wedding season so go to poets.org and find some good wedding poems. I can imagine using this in a class. Assign different occasions to different groups and set them the task of designing a short anthology of poems with introductions to the poems. Let’s see: weddings, funerals, births, baptisms, bar and bat mitzvahs, graduations. Can anyone think of others? Break ups? I guess I could just go to the card store and check out categories.
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