Raising our Glasses to the Hereafter - Does Death Truly have Dominion?
In this episode, Dolli and I discuss the great hereafter, Death. We reflect on our impressions and brushes with death while delving into the world of poets, writers and thinkers that have mused on the mortal coil that is our lives and the endings that await us all. We wonder about the dominion of death and our relationship with it. Meanwhile, I read an excerpt from one of my Anna, Stories and finish with a poem. Crack open a bottle and raise a glass alongside us!
Abtei im Eichwald (Abbey in an Oak Forest) 1810, Caspar David Friedrich - Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) - ‘And Death Shall have no Dominion’
Вечер. Золотой Плёс (Evening, Golden Pylos) 1889, Isaac Levitan - Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“A man can be master of nothing while ever he fears death. And the man that fears not death possesses everything. Without suffering, a man would not know his limits, would not know himself. ”
Der Mönch am Meer (The Monk by the Sea), 1810, Caspar David Friedrich - Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin