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elegy::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | lament |
| Type of | poem, verse form |
| Derivation | elegist, elegize |
Examples of elegy
elegy
The poet Robert Adamson has written an elegy for Stow and sent it to the Herald.
From the smh.com.au
It turns a long historic outrage into a short, relentlessly unsentimental elegy.
From the time.com
Dale Matson's book is part elegy, part training manual, for the back of the pack.
From the sacbee.com
Tears are my muse, and sorrow all my art, So piercing groans must be thy elegy.
From the guardian.co.uk
Hospice, frontman Peter Silberman's elegy to a dying friend, rattles the heart.
From the npr.org
It is, in other words, a self-conscious elegy to the reckless dreams of youth.
From the time.com
I can't help feeling an elegy should be about the person mourned, not the mourner.
From the guardian.co.uk
Look neither at the page of Homer, nor of elegy, nor tragic muse, nor epic strain.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Your friends can do the elegy in a local hall or park and you can self-cater.
From the odt.co.nz
- A mournful poem; a lament for the dead
- In literature, an elegy is a mournful, melancholic or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead.
- An elegy is a poem of mourning.
- Elegy is a Maxi single/EP by symphonic metal band Leaves' Eyes. It was released on May 2, 2005 . Almost all vocals are by Liv Kristine, with some backing "growls" by Alexander Krull. ...
- Elegy is a 2008 drama directed by Spanish director Isabel Coixet and based on a Philip Roth novel, The Dying Animal. The film is set in New York City, but was filmed in Vancouver.
- (Elegies) are poems that relate the experience of loss and search for consolation. They help the reader with the "work of mourning" by defending the individual against the anxieties associated with mortality and death. ...
- A lyric poem that laments the death of a person or the eventual death of all people. In a conventional elegy, set in a classical world, the poet and subject are spoken of as shepherds. ...
- Poem of loss, usually mourning the death of a public figure, or someone close to the poet.
- A mournful or contemplative lyric poem written to commemorate someone who is dead, often ending in consolation.
