See Catherine Maria Sedgwick, Stories for Young Persons (1841), p. 75; Social Visits (1854), pp. These deathbed confessions and other dire warnings to children were continued in the hundreds of Sunday School tracts which grew out of the Sunday School movement begun by Robert Raikes. On this mountain the LORD of hosts will provide for all peoples. Jaime de Angulo, Indian Tales (New York, 1969). John 11:25-26. 119, 122. Life doesnt come with a manual it comes with a mother.. 1017-1018 Isaiah 25:6a, 7-9 He will destroy death forever. Have you ever heard of the Sugar-Plum Tree? The presentation of death and mortality themes in children's literature has varied wildly from juvenile novels to self-help nonfiction works to the dark, escapist humor of Roald Dahl or Edward Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies, or, After the Outing (1963), which features alliteratively grisly scenes of children dying such as "A is for Amy who fell down the stairs." We have included a listing of some popular funeral quotations, such as: Have courage for the great sorrows in life and patience for the small ones, and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. The inadequacy of these books as literature for children on the subject of death is commented on by Sheila R. Cole in a recent article which appeared in The New York Times Book Review. Writers included in their juvenile books those aspects of life they believed children must know and understand, both for their own protection and for the sake of American society. In the Albert C. Bates and Maria E. Hewins Collections, Library of the Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford. Suitable for religious and non-religious ceremonies, any of the funeral readings listed here will be guaranteed to uplift everyone present and could even raise a smile. Home was not proof against sickness, death or poverty, and the greatest tragedies, like drunkenness and moral failure, were horrifying precisely because they invaded and destroyed family and home. A Mother's Love | Helen Steiner Rice | Beautiful Poems | Emotional Poetry A little nightingale sees a student weeping for a red rose. Antoine de St. Exupery, The Little Prince (New York, 1943), p. 89. What Norman Saw in the West (1859), pp. . Angels must have considered it as the greatest blessing that could have happened to a little girl like her to be placed so soon where she would never suffer from sin, or sickness, or pain of any kind. These continued to be printed in small American towns during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 24. He will destroy death forever. Why, I wouldn't say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house!" Ultimately the town leaders melt down the statue, believing that since it has lost its precious stones, it has lost its beauty. I wove my webs for you, because I liked you. He was my North, my South, my East and West,My working week and my Sunday rest,My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong. You can adjust your cookie settings using this tool, and find out more about our cookies here. blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Life means all that it ever meant.It is the same that it ever was.There is absolute unbroken continuity.Why should I be out of mindbecause I am out of sight? And both of you would've been wrong. 18, 211. This poem by Christina Rossetti is a much-loved verse for remembering someone you loved, no matter how old they were when they died. The nightingale must sing to the tree all night, with her breast against a thorn (an old English belief, by the way, as to how nightingales sing). We find this approach in folk literature, which, as Tolkien might put it, is the very bones of the stock of human experience,71 in which there is frequently a close and friendly relationship between life and death. The Treatment of Death in Children's Literature. A Midsummer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare. ", "You were very near knowing what they call me then. American Tract Society (New York, 19). Aleksandr Nikolaevich Afanasiev, "Prince Ivan, the Firebird, and the Gray Wolf," in The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Other Fairy Tales (New York, 1964), pp. This argument, I suppose, is analogous to another commonly held view of the subject, that our lives may be devastated by the death of someone who is close to us, but we remain more or less unmoved by the sight on our television screen of corpses in Northern Ireland or Cambodia or wherever the world's hot spot of the moment happens to be. For all the joy Thy child shall bring, the risk of grief well run. At any rate, so death is treated in MacDonald's At the Back of the North Wind. WebA reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew. Differences in cause of conflict, characterization, resolution of conflict, depth of emotional involvement, and themes are apparent in books of realistic fiction about death. After the disturbing reaches of the fantasies of MacDonald or of St. Exupry, it is rather a relief to turn to the old-fashioned Christian Platonism of C. S. Lewis' Narnia series, concluded in the seventh book The Last Battle: "The Eagle is right," said the Lord Digory. First published, 1910. So they were all dead.8. 32-62. Death is the brother of Sleep, is he not?". Andrew Lang, ed., The Red Fairy Book (New York, 1966), pp. By the time these acts of charity have been accomplished, it is too late for the swallow to fly South for the winter. A Child of Mine is a meaningful memorial poem for a child, whether read aloud at the funeral, or quietly shared with a friend who is grieving. "I am glad that you are going to Egypt at last, little Swallow," said the Prince, "you have stayed too long here; but you must kiss me on the lips, for I love you. Catherine Storr. It may offer reassuring words of comfort for parents and families who are grieving the loss of a child to an illness. At that time Jesus answered: "I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these AUTHOR COMMENTARY "The Devoted Friend" also has as a theme the unawareness of human beings of the sacrifices of those who love them. If you are looking for a non-religious alternative, however, there are some beautiful poems to choose from. They are also part of a funeral service and may be printed in the funeral program. When Alex and his father go to the pet shelter to donate some of Mustard's things, Alex declines the offer of a kitten because he does not have room at the moment for anything but memories of Mustard. A tree arises from his buried bones. The authors also noted that: At that moment a curious crack sounded inside the statue, as if something had broken. This is another poem written for children. All children were told by their books that contentment was neither a product nor a victim of outer reality, but of inner character. Pray for me.Let my name be ever the household wordthat it always was.Let it be spoken without effect.Without the trace of a shadow on it. His voice stirred everyone like a trumpet as he spoke these words: but when he added under his breath "It's all in Plato, all in Plato: bless me, what do they teach them at these schools!" The Student finds the rose outside his window and presents it to the girl, but she spurns it as the Chamberlain's nephew, meanwhile, has sent her some jewels. And the peaceful dew of Heaven fall upon you. 5. The goose was sitting on nine eggs. Here is the funeral poem: On a sheer peak of joy we meet; Below us hums the abyss; Death either way allures our feet If we take one step amiss. Without these cookies our website wouldnt work properly. Creating an original composition can be a good choice for people graced with writing talent since it can add a high level of personalization. "You must throw yourself in. 
An increasing number of realistic fiction stories develop themes related to the acceptance of death and the overcoming of emotional problems following the death of a loved one. The Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend, p. 300. At the same time his "best piece of poetry" was all too mortal. Coral Island, first published in 1857. (But this shouldn't bother us if we have seen the rhymes chanted today by children themselves and recorded in the seventy-fifth volume of the Journal of American Folklore.) (The conversation in Charlotte's Web between Mrs. Arable and the doctor is a particularly rich piece of comedy, working in several different ways at once.) Andrew Lang, ed., The Pink Fairy Book (New York, 1967), pp. He had some blue stripes in his tie that exactly matched the flowers on top of the casket. On this keen Zim and Bleeker stand for no philosophical truth. If the world they pictured in fiction was dangerous, it was because they believed that the real world was indeed dangerous for the unprepared. Johnson, Sickels, and Sayers, p. 1155. 3. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright 18, 31, 82, 133, 196. Alison White, "With Birds in His Beard," Saturday Review (January 15, 1966), p. 27. Than that you should remember and be sad. Just because it's smaller than the others?". "16 Very little in this literature encouraged a child to view either the world or its inhabitants through rose-colored glasses. I (New York, 1949), p. 300. All of them try to diffuse the finality and fearfulness by presenting death as just another natural process. That's why I like them" (unnumbered). And for the happiness weve known, forever grateful stay. 67. 1. WebFuneral readings are used during wakes, funerals, memorial services and celebration of life ceremonies. 27. Nothing much is said; he gives her a basket of blackberries and she thanks him. The few great books written primarily for children have been mostly by writers with such deep emotional problems that they have been afraid to express themselves openly to their peers and hence have written simply and honestly to children as their equals.4. As the shaft flew, his hand sank slowly with the bow till it lay across his knees, and his body likewise sank back again into Little John's loving arms; but something had sped from that body, even as the winged arrow sped from the bow.26. Constance C. Greene's Beat the Turtle Drum develops the basis for a girl's reactions to her sister's accidental death by describing the warm relationship between ten-year-old Joss and her twelve-year-old sister and best friend Kate. You have been my friend. . Here are just a few examples of funeral readings sure to create a powerful emotional moment for grieving friends and family. Famed Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen, for instance, used death as a regular feature in the long-running series of stories for children. "21, In the legends enjoyed by children, the hero has power, even over death. Funeral readings offer a way to express our feelings about losing a loved one. For you, in my respect, are all the world. You need not mourn over Narnia, Lucy. They speak to an eternal wonder and an emotional connection that works no matter the age of the person you are celebrating. Professor Wolff compares MacDonald's views on death to those of Norman O. . But will you, till I call him back, take care of him for me? . Robbie can recover from the first kind of terrible, but the second kind is irreversible. PRINCIPAL WORKS In another year he may be ready for a pet, he says. Louise Hay, author. WebYet so far as written-down literature is concerned, while there were stories in print before 1700 that children often seized on when they had the chance, such as translations of Aesops fables, fairy-stories and popular ballads and romances, these were not aimed at young people in particular. The priest or Revelation 7: 9-10, 15-17 A reading from the holy Gospel according to John. You may be looking for poems suitable for reading to your child at their funeral, or as a way of including siblings or other children in remembering them. They can return to earth as fish, horses' heads, donkeys, cows, bulls, oxen, calves, buffalo, swine, wild boar, goats, cats, dogs, lions, wolves, rabbits, foxes, deer, seals, bears, hyenas, jackals, elephants, monkeys, rats, otters, ducks, owls, hawks, eagles, swallows, cuckoos, doves, pigeons, ravens, quails, partridges, herons, cranes, geese, peacocks, parrots, snakes, lizards, crocodiles, tortoises, or frogs. Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage rage against the dying light.. Youll have his lovely memories as solace for your grief. Traditional funeral readings and funeral poems arent always in sync with the personality and spirit of the person you want to honor. The drunken father, that staple of temperance literaturechildren's as well as adultalso appeared in many books not otherwise specifically "temperance." In Through the Eyes of a Child: An Introduction to Children's Literature, pp. Lenz, Millicent. The whole business of funerals was not left, as we leave it, to a firm of faceless undertakers; children would see bodies being "laid out" in their own homes. For you to love while he lives and mourn for when hes dead. Two examples of these works include Eleanor Coerr's Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (1977), which reflects on the Hiroshima tragedy and one young girl's eventual passing from cancer caused by nuclear radiation, and Christophe Gallaz and Roberto Innocenti's Rose Blanche (1985), in which a German girl discovers first-hand the heinous realities of World War II. White's book. And the next saddest is the way the brothers and sisters feel. In A Taste of Blackberries by Doris Buchanan Smith, however, we do have a story for young children in which deathsudden and inexplicableis the main theme, and it is a book in which the characters are not talking animals. After E. B. Charlotte was both. 4. Almost any ailment was likely to be fatal, and the doctor's role often seemed to be confined to offering his opinion on the probability of recovery. The Wooden, Warren W. "Childhood and Death: A Reading of John Skelton's Philip Sparrow." C. G. realizes he has been afraid to see his dying friend when he recognizes that the time spent in capturing a wild parrot who lived in the tree outside his friend's window was an excuse for not visiting him. She understands what he feels and is unable to say, and he senses this; it's the kind of release he has been needing. Nor does this death-conquering love have to be sexual. Little by little, just as the deaf, the blind, and the handicapped develop with time an extra sense to balance disability, so the bereaved, and the widowed, will find new strength, new vision, born of the very pain and loneliness which seem at first, impossible to master. Ivan Southall. You can use the examples we have provided for inspiration. Educational Leadership 51, no. a voice broke the silence. Your clergy and funeral director can also help you narrow down your choices. But just as these books deal with the loss of siblings, books for children caught in the gap between picture books and longer works of fiction have begun to emerge, such as Doris Buchanan Smith's A Taste of Blackberries (1973) and Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia (1977), both of which are concerned with the inexplicable loss of a child's peer and friend. The speaker began to point out his various swollen spots smeared with soda paste. View a list of our cookies. Hundreds of children each year have one or both parents snatched from them in such a way; why shouldn't there be novels which deal with the subject, which may well help the young to come to terms with bereavement? There was not even any sound, because of the sand.68, The supreme act of giving is his death. How Do I Love Thee? He did not cry out. Macmillan, London, 1972; Viking 1972. Blume shows Davey's emotional ties with her father; her physical reactions when she faces peers (she faints at school but cannot tell the nurse her problem); her need for a quiet place to reflect; her interactions with a man dying from cancer and an uncle who will not allow her to take chances but designs weapons at Los Alamos; and her interactions with two friends who are also facing inner conflicts. Series 1, No. By Lewis Carroll, with an introduction and notes by Martin Gardner (New York, 1960), p. 27. And if thou here nevermore of me, pray for my soule!"23. "True to Nature . 70. And here the authors' claim to realism was upheld by statistics. While attracting some criticism for their outrageous content, such illicitly dark views of death present children with a way to defuse some of the awkwardness and tension surrounding the subject as well as allowing readers to cope with their inherent fear of dying by directly confronting and laughing at it. Scripture offers a rich collection of passages that can be used as funeral readings. An eleven-year-old, however, began to read Two Kinds of Terrible and then could not finish it. Is the reading respectful and appropriate? Visit ourPoetry Readings for Funerals Page forMore Examples. Then there is the death of Little Eva in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. The excerpt below from Shakespeare offers nuggets of wisdom for those mourning a loved one. "Nobody dies of bee stings.". Professor White surmises (as Elizabeth Sewell suggested earlier in The Field of Nonsense) that "in his limericks Lear, like all of us, is trying to get used to death, to dull its sting."42. Instead, they indifferently display various beliefs on a kind of religious lazy Susan: "There is no way," they say, "to know if these beliefs are true or not. When Ella asked, "May we not grieve for him when he is gone?" This Cid was really a demon from hell! In The Marble in the Water: Essays on Contemporary Writers of Fiction for Children and Young Adults, pp. We will therefore shorten the tale of Mary Erskine's anxiety and distress, by saying at once that Albert grew worse instead of better, every day for a fortnight, and then died. Here are some popular readings and The message is both tender and clear: death is a sad occasion, but eventually life moves on. "Listen, Peter. My little sister wept to see Marlene, my sister small, Then gathered my bones in her silken shawl, And laid them under the Juniper tree. 1. First published by The Bodley Head, 1956. 18. Frederick, of Conquest and Self-Conquest, spent three weeks in bed with a broken arm. "Fear and Evil in Children's Books." The Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend, Vol. Closely related in theme to the "Warnings to Apprentices" of the late seventeenth century, numerous deathbed confessions of young children stemmed from James Janeway's A Token for Children: Being an Exact Account of the Conversions, Holy and Exemplary Lives, and Joyful Deaths of Several Young Children (1671). She dies as a result of giving birth to five hundred and fourteen baby spiders, and the point that White makes, that death is an inevitable and necessary part of the whole scheme of things, is made acceptable by the emphasis he puts, after Charlotte dies, on the joy and happiness of birth, not only of the spiders, but of all the young animals on the farm. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1975. Disgusted, the Student throws the rose down in the street, and a cart-wheel runs over it. There are a number of poems that are considered standards. WebFor the fullest treatment of death in children's literature, we must return to the nineteenth century, to the fantasies of George MacDonald, most notably to At the Back of the North Wind and The Golden Key. One character wants people to die and be revived, the other wants death to be permanent. Afterglow Unknown Id like the memory of me to be a happy one. Kate gradually understands that resolution of her grief and conflicting emotions will take more than a moment, but that she will receive pleasure from her memories of Joss. Is the passage, poem, or quote a favorite of the deceased? BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Whatever else he found in these stories, the child who read them could scarcely have failed to understand that he must seek his security, not in the outer world, but within his own heart, and that his capacity to deal with an unreliable universe was wholly dependent upon the strength of the moral character he developed in his growing years. In spite of the prevalence of death in the stories, however, and in spite of the authors' undeniable efforts to engage the sympathies of their readers for the orphaned child and the widowed mother, the literary handling of death in children's fiction was, for the most part, surprisingly unsentimental. One of the many stories of restoration to life in the Grimm collection is the famous "Juniper Tree" story. 127-147; 263-269. Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Part 6. Mr. Arable, of course, isn't the sadistic killer he appears to be here, and the pig, Wilbur, is savedfor the time being: the death sentence hangs over him throughout most of the book. 1 First Readings The Old Testament readings tend to point out that while death is inevitable, God's love is stronger than death. If its a religious funeral service you may want to choose a religious reading. one of the innocuous animals that ends up as food for people and the act of killing fish is blotted out, some way.19, Though there are a variety of approaches to the subject of death in these stories, all in all the approach is not morbid. 3. Provides a canonical analysis of children's books with death and loss as their primary subject. Parents of fictional children were anxiously cautious about matters of physical health. 20 Mar. Walker provides a historical context to how various time periods illustrated death in its literature for children. Hansen, Joyce 1942 In "The Water of Life," a sister, wiser and more courageous than her brothers, fetches the magic water and restores not only her brothers, but "a great company of youths and girls" who have been put under an evil spell and turned to stones.13 Another folk tale which should delight women's liberationists appears in The Brown Fairy Book. 81-82. See, for instance, A. S. W. Rosenbach, Early American Children's Books (New York, 1971). WebOne of the most popular poems to be read at funeral services, this poem dates from the early twentieth century and sees the speaker entreating the loved ones she leaves White's achievement, A Taste of Blackberries seems flat, all on one level, and too didactic: the moral of "don't accept lifts from strangers," for example, sticks through the brief thunderstorm episode in glaring capital letters. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. After Ramo is killed by a pack of wild dogs, Karana tries to exact revenge on the animals, exterminating several of them until she decides to nurse their leader, whom she names Rontu, back to health. An 1845 Sunday School Union book undertook to combat the "settled opinion" among children that the good die early by assuring readers that it was misbehavior rather than goodness that killed most children.7. "She closed her eyes, and in a few minutes afterwards, her spirit flednone knew whitherbut it was gone! In Scott O'Dell's Island of the Blue Dolphins (1960), death becomes an almost overpowering part of Native American girl's life. Mrs. Houser stood in the doorway and everyone was quiet. McGeorge, Colin. Here are some classic, uplifting funeral readings that will always bring a thoughtful air to proceedings, whether youre remembering a much-missed parent, grandparent, partner, spouse, sibling, child or friend. C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Penguin: Middlesex, Eng., 1969), pp. In the story's final epilogue, God sweeps up the leaden heart of the statue, which has refused to melt, and the body of the swallow, describing them as the two most precious things in the entire village and taking them to stay with him in Heaven. . Charlotte, the spider, saves him in the end, but there's no cosy sentimentality about this: she dies herself. Nothing is past; nothing is lost. SOURCE: Butler, Francelia. Certainly she's not a remote figure in a faraway place, like a dying baddie in a Western film or a Nicaraguan rebel, seen on TV, killed in a civil war. Early children's books, especially those of the eighteenth century, contained so many holy deaths of good children that apparently some of their readers fell under the misapprehension that the wages of virtue were death. Herbert S. Zim and Sonia Bleeker, Life and Death (New York, 1970), p. 20. Call: See opening times or find information online. You get into the story and forget everything. The Queen wins.16 The Yellow Fairy Book has a North American Indian story which combines elements similar to those in the story of Pygmalion, and the Orpheus and Eurydice legend. Later on, the book candidly tells the child: After burial a body, which is composed of nearly three-quarters water, soon changes. We know that Caxton's translation of Aesop was read both by children and adults, and John Locke repeatedly recommends Aesop for children.35 Here the relation of all aspects of human experience is quite completeincluding sexual experiencecomplete enough to make spicy reading for Playboy. Quote a favorite of the sand.68, the Pink Fairy Book ( New York 1969... Terrible, but the second kind is irreversible `` temperance. the age of the sand.68, hero... That are considered standards of grief well funeral readings from children's literature Eng., 1969 ) non-religious alternative,,... 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