Incident in a Rose Garden | Topics for Further Study

Interview your classmates, family, and friends about a time when they had a premonition of death. What similarities do you see in their stories?

Justice dedicated this poem to poet Mark Strand. Read Strand’s collection of poems Darker. Discuss similarities between the two poets’ representation and awareness of death.

Brainstorm a list of ways in which death is visually represented in contemporary art, film, writing, and culture. What gender is death? How old? Where and when does death usually appear? What can you conclude from these facts about society’s...

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