This article first explains a) the difference between death as a (non)final state and Death as the bearer of a (non)final state, b) the concept of the aesthetics of ugliness, and c) the intersection of death/Death and the aesthetics of ugliness. The placement of death/Death in the context of Christianity and the literary-historical period of modernity is then presented, followed by some individual examples of verse texts by Cankar, Kette, Murn, and Župančič that contain death/Death and other "modern" phenomena related to death/Death.
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