The assignement presented tries to shed light on the images of death as we find them in Slovenian selection of Louise Glück’s poetry called Onkraj noči. It focuses on the image of death during the history of philosophy and literature, stresses the characteristics of Louise Glück’s poetics and further on analizes nineteen poems from the selection that talk about death. It finds out that the most common image of death in Glück’s poems is the loss of a close person but she also talks about the immortality of spirit, the death as freedom, the death from love, the strive towards survival, the inevitability of death and the fear before death. The poetess expresses the death motifs through narrative style and reflexion, more seldom through metaphors. With her poetry she fights the oblivion.
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