Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral · Concept
Death and the Afterlife
Many elegies and funeral poems explore death as a transition to a heavenly afterlife, offering consolation to mourners by depicting the deceased as ascending to blissful immortality, as in 'On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell' and 'On the Death of a Young Gentleman.'
Many elegies and funeral poems explore death as a transition to a heavenly afterlife, offering consolation to mourners by depicting the deceased as ascending to blissful immortality, as in 'On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell' and 'On the Death of a Young Gentleman.'
Sewell is depicted as ascending to the immortal shore and joining the happy dead in eternal day.
Whitefield's death is portrayed as a triumphant ascent to an immortal throne in heaven, with the tomb holding his dust until resurrection.
The poem centers on death as a passage to heaven, with vivid imagery of the soul's seat and divine joys.
The poem explores Death's dominion over all creation and the soul's liberation and ascent to heavenly bliss.
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Chapters
- On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell. 1769
- On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770
- On the Death of a Young Gentleman
- To a Lady on the Death of Three Relations
- To a Lady on Her Remarkable Preservation in an Hurricane in North-Carolina
- To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady’s Brother and Sister, and a Child of the Name of Avis, Aged One Year
- On the Death of Dr. Samuel Marshall. 1771
- To the Honourable T. H. Esq.; On the Death of His Daughter
