Poems on Death and Dying

Now here's a cheerful subject. For most people, the first two impressions that come to our minds when someone says, "poetry", are love ballads and poems about death. Our greatest poets seem somehow obsessed with death. William Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath. And so many more. Read on for a glimpse of what death and dying mean to contemporary Buzzle.com poets!