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Skeiðæingatal. Poem by Edgar Lee Masters. Translated from English by Hallberg Hallmundsson.
Skeiðæingtal is a free verse poem, a kind of
epitaphs, except that they are the dead
themselves who describe their lives briefly and there
since they are dead they can be completely
honest and self-declared and
their fellow travelers without any reservations. It
It was not least this honesty that made the work possible.
right at the beginning of great popularity and respect,
than fellow Masters travelers in Lewistown, Illinois
However, he was quite upset because
so categorically make up with people who slept
peacefully in their graves. There are 244 characters
who describe their lives in the work and each poem carries
the name of the person in question. Some of the poems are related to
despite the fact that it is a singular word. Strength
of these singulars is such that some
drama teachers, who emphasize
text interpretation and character analysis, let their students
play characters Masters for practice purposes. In most
In some cases, it is a first-person description.
in this prestigious work, which is one of the cornerstones
of American poetry.