How Long to Read In Search of the Great Dead

How Long Does it Take to Read In Search of the Great Dead?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 12 minutes to read In Search of the Great Dead by Richard Cecil

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

With grim humor and humorous grimness, In Search of the Great Dead engages the great themes of poetry: death and fame. The title poem of this collection records Richard Cecil's quest for the tombs of the famous dead. At first the search leads him on a tour of famous European tombstones—the grave of Chateaubriand in St. Malo, the shared tomb of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, Yeats's old Celtic cross in Sligo—but gradually it expands into areas where all the tombs have been erased by time or vandalism—the tombs of Seneca and Lucan, and all of the great dead poets whose names have been lost. These once famous, now unknown poets lead Cecil to consider those graveyards full of anonymous dead—the civil war soldiers buried under tiny stones with numbers instead of names inscribed on them. Are they more anonymous than the once famous, now forgotten "great" dead? Though Cecil is wryly aware of his own obscurity, his poems are strangely optimistic and life-affirming. His reply to Emily Dickinson's question: "I'm Nobody—are you / Nobody, too?" is an enthusiastic yes! In Search of the Great Dead conveys the joy of being Nobody and the shy, almost buried hope that someday (after death), he might become Somebody.

How long is In Search of the Great Dead?

In Search of the Great Dead by Richard Cecil is 128 pages long, and a total of 33,024 words.

This makes it 43% the length of the average book. It also has 40% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read In Search of the Great Dead Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours to read In Search of the Great Dead aloud.

What Reading Level is In Search of the Great Dead?

In Search of the Great Dead is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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