Project Gutenberg 2006-11-27 Public domain in the USA. 81 Phillipps, Thomas, Sir 1792 1872 Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, bart. Singer, Samuel Weller 1783 1858 Singer, S. W. (Samuel Weller) The Departing Soul's Address to the Body: A Fragment of a Semi-Saxon Poem Discovered Among the Archives of Worcester Cathedral Reading ease score: 88.6 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Taavi Kalju and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) "The Departing Soul's Address to the Body: A Fragment of a Semi-Saxon Poem" is a historical poem attributed to an unknown author and was published in 1845, likely based on material from the 12th century. This fragment showcases a transition between Anglo-Saxon and Middle English poetry, presenting a moralistic view on life, death, and the consequences of one's earthly actions. The work is grounded in the traditional religious and didactic literature of its time, reflecting themes common in medieval poetry. The poem takes the form of a dialogue between a departing soul and its body, expressing profound lamentation over a life lived in sin and greed. The soul reproaches the body for its earthly desires and failures, elaborating on the inevitable separation that comes with death and the ultimate consequences that await both. The imagery used is somber and vivid, detailing the decay of the body in death, the hollow nature of worldly possessions, and the torment that awaits in the afterlife for those who do not repent. Through this poignant exchange, the poem delves deep into the moral reflections of its era, urging readers to consider the weight of their actions before the final separation of soul and body. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Poetry PR Text Browsing: Poetry 154705 154706 2024-10-08T15:41:33.048163 2023-09-09T06:15:26.011231 text/html text/html 133598 2006-12-04T10:25:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 28384 2006-12-04T10:26:36 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 128034 2024-10-08T15:41:41.811126 application/epub+zip 126214 2024-10-08T15:41:37.131163 application/epub+zip 96258 2024-10-08T15:41:35.622165 application/epub+zip 347416 2024-10-08T15:41:44.828139 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 343326 2024-10-08T15:41:40.790127 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 226877 2022-09-09T11:58:47.208539 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 70305 2024-10-08T15:41:31.781189 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 70027 2006-12-04T10:26:18 text/plain; charset=utf-8 24875 2006-12-04T10:26:36 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 70031 2006-12-04T10:25:04 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 24898 2006-12-04T10:26:36 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 70139 2006-12-04T10:25:10 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 24875 2006-12-04T10:26:36 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22935 2024-10-08T15:41:44.971094 application/rdf+xml 25343 2024-10-08T15:41:36.216132 image/jpeg 4699 2024-10-08T15:41:35.921157 image/jpeg 126641 2024-10-08T15:41:33.057168 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia