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Who Wrote Home is the sailor?
Robert Louis Stevenson
Home from the Hill is a phrase from Robert Louis Stevenson’s poem (and epitaph), Requiem, the last two lines of which read: Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
What was written on Robert Louis Stevenson tombstone?
Stevenson was called Tusitala (Samoan language: tusi book, tala writer) by the people of Samoa. Inscribed on Stevenson’s tomb is his requiem: Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie.
Who wrote the poem under the wide and starry sky?
Nancy Horan
Under the Wide and Starry Sky/Authors
Where is Robert Louis Stevenson’s grave?
Mount Vaea, Samoa
Robert Louis Stevenson/Place of burial
Who wrote requiem poem?
Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson – Poems | Academy of American Poets.
What is Stevenson’s epitaph?
“Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. This be the verse you grave for me: “Here he lies where he longed to be. Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.”
Is Under the wide and starry sky a true story?
Horan (Loving Frank, 2007) offers another fictionalized romantic biography, this time of Robert Louis Stevenson and his American wife, Fanny.
Where is Samoa?
South Pacific Ocean
Samoa is a small island country in the central South Pacific Ocean. It is made up of an archipelago of 9 islands, 4 of which are inhabited. The 2 largest islands are Savai’i and Upolu. Samoa sits about halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii.
What is theme of the poem the last dream?
The poem is both a dream about death and a depiction of death as an entering into, or perhaps an awakening from, an ultimo sogno—a final (and ultimate) dream. In any case, the healing in the first stanza is death: life is the sickness.
What is under the wide and starry sky about?
Under the Wide and Starry Sky explores the shared journey of Robert Louis Stevenson and his spirited American wife, Fanny, in a sweeping adventure that unfolds over eighteen years and three continents. Nancy Horan has two sons, and lives with her husband on an island in Puget Sound.