Epitaph is a way of mourning and a cultural expression with a long history of mankind. Epitaph includes two parts: chronicle and inscription. Record the name, font size, native place, official rank, merits and demerits of the deceased in prose. The inscription sums up the full text of the chronicle in verse, expressing condolences, comfort and praise to the deceased, and euphemistically expressing emotion. ?
The writing requirement of epitaph is narrative summary, gentle language and concise text. Writing epitaphs has two characteristics that cannot be ignored, one is generality, and the other is originality. Due to the limitation of tombstone space, epitaphs cannot be lengthy. Besides, simple and clear words are also convenient for readers to read and remember?
The following are the epitaphs of some famous people:
1, Pushkin: "Pushkin and his young muse are buried here. Love and laziness spent a happy life together. " He has done nothing good, but he is really a good man at heart. " ?
2. Before he died, Newton said, "I'm just a child picking up shells at the seaside." . However, it is quite interesting that the tombstone of this great British scientist reads: "The dead should celebrate themselves, because human beings have produced such great decorations." ?
The tombstone of Franklin, an American scientist who once "captured" lightning in the sky, is engraved with "Franklin the printer".
Nie Er is a famous composer in China. His epitaph quoted a poem by the French poet Colato: "My ears are like shells, and I miss the sound of the sea." ?
5. The epitaph of Irish poet Ye Zhi is the last seventeen words of a poem he wrote on the eve of his death: "Look at life and death coldly, and knights will pass by." ?
6. The epitaph of the great writer Hemingway: "Forgive me for not getting up!"
7. The epitaph of French writer Stendhal is simple: "Henri Bell of Milan lies here. He used to live, write and fall in love. " ?
8. The epitaph of aristophanes, the "father of comedy" in ancient Greece, was written by the philosopher Plato: "The goddess my melody was looking for an immortal palace and finally found it in Fu Ling, aristophanes." ?
9. Epitaph of Martin Luther King: I am free! Thank God Almighty, I am free at last.
10 Lu Xun's epitaph: "Hao Ge is cold when he is crazy; See the abyss in the sky. I can't see anything in everyone's eyes; Free from despair. ..... A wandering soul turned into a long snake with fangs in its mouth. Don't bite, bite yourself and eventually fall down. ……
1 1, Rousseau's epitaph: "He who sleeps here loves nature and truth." ?
12, Beethoven's epitaph: "He always treats all people with his human kindness." ?
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