Assignment task:
Most of the readings for "Life and Death" deal primarily with death. Why do you think this is? Can we understand life without the inevitability of death? How do we see life as a theme in these works specifically, include examples from at least three pieces? References: James Richardson: "Late Aubade" Emily Dickinson: "Because I Could not Stop For Death" Yusuf Komunyakaa: " Facing it"