Epithalamion Poetry

Epithalamion poems, traditionally composed for weddings, celebrate love and marriage. These lyrically rich and often elaborate poems blend personal emotion with cultural symbolism, encapsulating the joy, hope, and solemnity of the matrimonial union.

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After The War

by Liz Lochhead

‘After the War’ is a poem that takes a nostalgic look at the hard times that the poet remembers from her childhood following World War Two.

Within this poem, there is some praise for the poet's parents' marriage, which would fit with the idea of an epithalamion. However, this is not the central theme of the poem and only occurs in some places in the second stanza.

After the war

was the dull country I was born in.

The night of Stafford Cripps's budget

My dad inhaled the blue haze of one last Capstan

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