Mourning, Separation, Mental Space

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" shows many features associated with seventeenth-century metaphysical poetry in general, and with Donne's work in particular. Donne's contemporary, the English writer Izaak Walton, tells us the poem dates from 1611, when Donne, about to travel to France and Germany, wrote for his wife this valediction, or farewell speech. Like most poetry of Donne's time, it ...

[Loss and mourning].

The human being needs ties to grow and develop. When some of these ties are broken a period of great intensity arises that we call mourning. If the loss is radical and definitive, as in the case of death, all of the person's dimensions are affected (the physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioural, social and spiritual dimensions), to such an extent that the person can feel unable to overcome th...

Mourning Dr Welby.

Tales From Taiwan: Mourning

Mourning a music legend

Holy Cross College could expand its degree programs to o ffer fo u r -y e a r b a c h e l o r ’s d e g re e s in th e n e a r fu tu re , according to proposals currently being developed at the College. Pending accred ita t ion from the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, Holy Cross wants to o ffer a fouryear bachelor of arts degree in addition to the tw o -y ea r a s s o c i a t ...