Wednesday 17 October 2012

Just wanted to say

A very close friend of mine who has never understood what I am trying to achieve with the Sam says enjoy life! project, asked me what I am trying to gain from it. I believe we all grieve in different ways and I have found it so therapeutic as well as a wonderful way for me to stay in contact with my sister. Everytime I try to think up a happy, positive slogan I fill myself with her wonderful energy.
People admire film stars, musicians, politicians, sportsmen/woman. Sam wasn't famous however she is very inspiring and invigorating. She also left us an awful lot of footage for us to get to know her, why can't I use it and spread the word?

Different forms of commemorating your loved one:

Elegy


The elegy began as an ancient Greek metrical form and is traditionally written in response to the death of a person or group. Though similar in function, the elegy is distinct from the epitaph, ode, and eulogy: the epitaph is very brief; the ode solely exalts; and the eulogy is most often written in formal prose.
The elements of a traditional elegy mirror three stages of loss. First, there is a lament, where the speaker expresses grief and sorrow, then praise and admiration of the idealized dead, and finally consolation and solace. These three stages can be seen in W. H. Auden’s classic"In Memory of W. B. Yeats," written for the Irish master, which includes these stanzas:
With the farming of a verse
Make a vineyard of the curse,
Sing of human unsuccess
In a rapture of distress;

In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountain start,
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise.
Other well-known elegies include "Fugue of Death" by Paul Celan, written for victims of the Holocaust, and "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman, written for President Abraham Lincoln.
Many modern elegies have been written not out of a sense of personal grief, but rather a broad feeling of loss and metaphysical sadness. A famous example is the mournful series of ten poems in Duino Elegies, by German poet Rainer Maria Rilke. The first poem begins:
If I cried out
           who would hear me up there
    among the angelic orders?
And suppose one suddenly 
           took me to his heart
           I would shrivel


Taj Mahal: The Greatest Mausoleum Of Love

Imagine in a full moon night,  you are sitting on the bank of a river , in front of a highland. And on the surface of this ascent , a white jewel is shining.  And it is reverting itself in the mirror of the water. Probably you are thinking it as the most romantic fantasy. But this is not dreamy. The river , we are talking about is Yamuna and the white jewel is the great “Taj Mahal“.  The incomparable , peerless and unparalleled Taj Mahal !
Taj Mahal, the greatest Mausoleum of Love is an elegy in white marble which is in fact the most phenomenal burial place ever built by any Romeo for his Juliet. Taj Mahal was constructed by the Mughal Emperor , Shahab u Din Muhammad Shahjahan, who was the fifth emperor of the then great Mughal empire of India.  Shahjahan was also famous with the name of the “Engineer Emperor” and his period was the most glorious period for Mughal architecture. He constructed many remarkable structures but the most breathtaking of all of them is surely the Taj Mahal.
In 1631 , Shahjahan lost his most beloved wife the Empress Mumtaz Mahal ” Arjumand Banu Begum ” during the birth of their fourteenth child.  She was the most trustworthy companion of the Emperor Shahjehan who remained with his husband during all of her life. Mumtaz Mahal was Emperor’s true love and she was also the mother of Aurangzeb Alamgir who was the successor of the Emperor Shahjehan. The death of the Empress was the most dejected incident in the life of the Emperor Shahjahan. At that time , he decided to make the tomb of his valentine as the most elegant final resting place in the world.


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