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By DIANA BIRD
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
Poets find some of their most successful work relates to basic human concerns. One that has engaged them from time immemorial is the prospect of death and the hope for eternal life.
Death and immortality have found mythic expression in a variety of modes. Probably the earliest surviving literary work is the Gilgamesh epic, written on clay tablets in cuneiform script by Sumerians about 3800 BC.
It chronicles a king’s search for immortality after he loses his bosom friend, Enkidu. Gilgamesh seeks out Ut-napishtim, who has been granted eternal life by the gods because he saved humanity from the flood. This poem, not surprisingly, is thought to be the first telling of Noah’s story.
Expression of the desire for immortality appears in Greek mythology with the notion of Pluto, king of
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