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1. Elegy
   Elegy is a form of poetry of a mournful and reflective character, particularly a mourning funeral song for a departed friend.
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2. elegy
   a lament a melancholy composition 
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3. Elegy
   Poem written to lament the dead e.g. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray. Such a poem would employ a mournful or elegiac tone. Other examples of elegy include: Lycidas by Milton, In Memoriam by Tennyson, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd by Whitman (for Abraham Lincoln) an...
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4. elegy
   [n] - a mournful poem
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5. Elegy
   An elaborately formal lyric poem which laments the death of a friend or a public figure, or reflects seriously on a solemn subject. In Greek and Latin verse the term had particular reference to the metre of a poem rather than its mood or content. John Donne applied the term to his amorous and satiri...
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6. elegy
   In poetry, a piece of sorrowful and usually commemorative character; in music either a vocal setting of such a poem or an instrumental piece suggesting the mood awakened by it. ...
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7. elegy
   Ancient Greek poetic verse genre, originally combining a hexameter (line of poetry with six metrical feet) with a shorter line in a couplet. It was used by the Greeks for
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8. Elegy
   a poem or song which is a lament, perhaps for someone or something which has died.
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9. Elegy
   El'e·gy noun ; plural Elegies . [ Latin elegia , Greek ..., fem. sing. (cf. ..., prop., neut. plural of ... a distich in elegiac verse), from ... elegiac, from ... a song of mourning.] A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation. Shak.
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10. elegy
    lament noun a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
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11. Elegy
    • (n.) A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.
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12. elegy
    meditative lyric poem lamenting the death of a public personage or of a friend or loved one; by extension, any reflective lyric on the broader theme ... [13 related articles]
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13. elegy
    a Greek or Latin form in alternating dactylic hexameter and dactylic pentameter lines; and a melancholy poem lamenting its subject's death but ending in consolation. Examples in English include John Milton's 'Lycidas,' Thomas Gray's 'Elegy,' Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'Adonais,' Alfred lord Tennyson's '...
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14. elegy
    A poem of mourning for someone who is dead: a meditative poem.
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15. elegy
    elegy, in Greek and Roman poetry, a poem written in elegiac verse (i.e., couplets consisting of a hexameter line followed by a pentameter line). The form dates back to 7th cent. B.C. in Greece and poets such as Archilochus, Mimnermus, and Tytraeus. Later taken up and developed in Roman poetry, it wa...
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16. elegy
    Ancient Greek poetic verse genre, originally combining a hexameter (line of poetry with six metrical feet) with a shorter line in a couplet. It was used by the Greeks for epigrams, short narratives, and discursive poems, and adopted by the Roman poets (such as Ovid and Propertius), particularly for ...
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17. Elegy
    (The Twilight Zone) "`Elegy`" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. Synopsis: Running out of fuel, astronauts Meyers, Webber, and Kirby land their spaceship on a remote asteroid. They find the place quite Earth-like with buildings and pe...
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18. Elegy
    :Not to be confused with eulogy. In literature, an `elegy` is a mournful, melancholic or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead. History: The Greek term elegeia (ἐλεγεία) originally referred to any verse written in elegiac couplets and...
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19. Elegy
    (Amorphis album) `Elegy` is the third full-length album by Finnish band Amorphis. The album is their first to feature a majority of clean vocals, sung by new vocalist Pasi Koskinen. The music and lyrics are inspired by the traditional Finnish ballads and poems compiled in the Kantel...
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20. Elegy
    (band) `Elegy` are a Dutch power metal band, founded in 1986 in Eindhoven. Their music is characterized by the fusion of power and publisher = Elegy Official Website-->--> In 1986, the new band won a competition organized by the German magazine Metal Hammer and Polydor Records and reco...
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21. Elegy
    (EP) `Elegy` is a Maxi single/EP by symphonic metal band accessdate=2009-12-20 -->--> It was released on May 2, 2005. Almost all vocals are by Liv Kristine, with some backing "growls" by Alexander Krull. "Elegy" is taken from the album Vinland Saga, and a fur...
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22. Elegy
    (film) `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. Plot: David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley) is a cultural critic and professor, in a state of `publi...
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23. Elegy
    (The Nice album) `Elegy` was the final official album release by The Nice, Keith Emerson having moved on to Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Lee Jackson to Jackson Heights and Brian Davison to Every Which Way. It consists of different versions of already familiar tracks and broke little new...
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