Look up: Elegy

1. elegy
   a lament a melancholy composition 
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2. Elegy
   Elegy is a form of poetry of a mournful and reflective character, particularly a mourning song for a departed friend.
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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) and In Memory of W. B. Yeats by Auden. A more modern example of elegy is V by Tony Harrison.
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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 satirical poems in Heroic couplets. However, since Lycidas by Milton (1673), the term in English has usually denoted a lament, while the term 'elegiac' has come to refer to the mournful mood of such poems in English. An important English elegy that followed Milton in using pastoral conventions is Adonias by Shelley (1821) on the death of Keats. The pastoral elegy evolved a series of elaborate conventions by which the dead friend is represented as a shepherd mourned by the natural world. As a rule pastoral elegies contain many mythological figures, such as nymphs, who are supposed to guard the dead friend. In Memoriam A. H. H. by Tennyson (1850) is a long series of elegiac verses in the modern sense on the death of his friend, Arthur Hallam, whilst When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd by Walt Whitman (1865) commemorates the death of a public figure, Abraham Lincoln, rather than a friend. In a broader sense, an elegy is a poem of melancholy reflection on life's sorrows or transience as in Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Gray (1751).
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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 epigrams, short narratives,...
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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
    `Elegy` was originally used for a type of poetic metre (Elegiac metre), but is also used for a poem of mourning, from the Greek `elegos`, a reflection on the death of someone or on a sorrow generally - which is a form of lyric poetry. An elegy can also reflect on something which seems strange or mysterious to the author. In addition, an elegy (sometimes spelled elegíe) may be a type of musical work, usually in a sad and somber attitude. It is not...
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12. Elegy
    `Elegy` was originally used for a type of poetic metre (Elegiac metre), but is also used for a poem of mourning, from the Greek `elegos`, a reflection on the death of someone or on a sorrow generally - which is a form of lyric poetry. An elegy can also reflect on something which seems strange or mysterious to the author. In addition, an elegy (sometimes spelled elegíe) may be a type of musical work, usually in a sad and somber attitude. It is not...
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13. Elegy
    • (n.) A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.
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14. 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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15. 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 "In Memoriam," Matthew Arnold's "Thyrsis," Gerard M...
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16. elegy
    A poem of mourning for someone who is dead: a meditative poem.
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