How to Write a Eulogy
How To Write A Eulogy
It is a quiet room filled with people. Most of them have smiles on their faces. Some of them are even about to have a laughter or two. Is it easy to find such a room in a university? Yes. But is it easy to find such a room where people are holding a funeral in? Absolutely no. The masterpiece-eulogy by Margaret Atwood made it possible. That is right, I am talking about “The Great Communicator”(1999), the eulogy to Northrop Frye.
Like every other eulogy, the main idea of the article is to describe how big the loss was to us upon Frye’s death. Atwood gave numerous examples vividly in a relaxing tone, and those examples served as an entity, defining who Northrop Frye was. In the first paragraph, a typical lecture from Frye was described as “ in pure, lucid, eloquent, funny and engaging prose, for the space of an hour” (Margaret Atwood 1999 p.85). Atwood said this because she wanted to show how great Frye’s lectures could be. Another decent example could be found in paragraph four. Atwood quoted from an apocryphal story about a conversation between a woman and Frye, who expressed the doubt from the woman that if there is anything Frye does not know (Atwood 1999). And Frye told her that he does not know about Japanese flower arranging. But then he still managed to give pages of information about it (Atwood 1999). This example did not only made me laugh, but also made me realize how knowledgeable Frye was. There was also a fine example close to the end of the eulogy, in paragraph five, about once Frye had a wonderful chat with Atwood’s young daughter in her house (Atwood 1999). This was to explain that Frye was able to talk and enchant a six-year-old girl whereas he was known as a shy person. With several more similar examples, Atwood successfully portrayed Frye’s professional, academic and personal lives.
Although there were not particular topic sentences used in each paragraph, Margaret still gave a clear image on what she was trying to speak
It is a quiet room filled with people. Most of them have smiles on their faces. Some of them are even about to have a laughter or two. Is it easy to find such a room in a university? Yes. But is it easy to find such a room where people are holding a funeral in? Absolutely no. The masterpiece-eulogy by Margaret Atwood made it possible. That is right, I am talking about “The Great Communicator”(1999), the eulogy to Northrop Frye.
Like every other eulogy, the main idea of the article is to describe how big the loss was to us upon Frye’s death. Atwood gave numerous examples vividly in a relaxing tone, and those examples served as an entity, defining who Northrop Frye was. In the first paragraph, a typical lecture from Frye was described as “ in pure, lucid, eloquent, funny and engaging prose, for the space of an hour” (Margaret Atwood 1999 p.85). Atwood said this because she wanted to show how great Frye’s lectures could be. Another decent example could be found in paragraph four. Atwood quoted from an apocryphal story about a conversation between a woman and Frye, who expressed the doubt from the woman that if there is anything Frye does not know (Atwood 1999). And Frye told her that he does not know about Japanese flower arranging. But then he still managed to give pages of information about it (Atwood 1999). This example did not only made me laugh, but also made me realize how knowledgeable Frye was. There was also a fine example close to the end of the eulogy, in paragraph five, about once Frye had a wonderful chat with Atwood’s young daughter in her house (Atwood 1999). This was to explain that Frye was able to talk and enchant a six-year-old girl whereas he was known as a shy person. With several more similar examples, Atwood successfully portrayed Frye’s professional, academic and personal lives.
Although there were not particular topic sentences used in each paragraph, Margaret still gave a clear image on what she was trying to speak