1. Sutton Hoo
The summer was nearly as bad; diseases flourished in these harsh conditions. ... On looking at the chap next to me I felt sick, for green stuff was oozing from the side of his mouth as he died." ... Some were killed outright; others would take days to die from their horrific injuries, lying alone and helpless in the mud. Their pitiful cries as they slowly died were deeply distressing to their comrades back in the trenches who could do nothing to help them. ... They loathed the old men They desired that profiteers should die by poison gas. ...
In the summer of 1846, it was apparent that this harbinger of starvation was consuming each and every farm throughout Ireland. ... Later, a conservative estimate of the death toll to the Irish immigration in 1847 to Canada alone was, "(out of) roughly 100,000 travelers, 25,000, or one in every four, died en route or within six months of arrival to their destination" (Gallagher 211). ...
Donne also attributes his poem religiously, implying upon our fate with death, "One short sleep past, we wake eternally, / and death shall be no more: Death thou shalt die," the thirteenth and fourteenth stanza. ... However, what the people of his town did not know is that status does not provide happiness, because he was unable to live on with his life; in the last stanza "And Richard Cory, one calm summer night / Went home and put a bullet through his head," committed suicide (Auden). ...
Legend says that Aurelius, Arthur's uncle had Merlin construct Stonehenge as a monument to his soldiers that died in the battle against the Saxons. ... Stonehenge was probably use as a celestial tracker to keep track of events such as the winter and summer Solstices and ellipses of the moon, which occurs every 18.61 years. ...
"Of the dying year, to which this closing night will be the dome of a vast sepulchre vaulted with all thy congregated might.... He says "As summer winds that creep from flower to flower", a lonely spirit, moving on. ... Eventually darkness starts to fall in the poem, "Like darkness to a dying flame!...
During a sea voyage Bethia's father dies, so now they are left without a father and a teacher. ... They strive at school and then Caleb and Joel move on to Harvard, where they both die around graduation time. ... During the summer a whale washes up onto the beach near the settlement. ...