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1) Epicede 2) Lament 3) Poem 4) Sad song 5) Threnody 6) Verse
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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 from the ἔλεγος elegos, `lament`) originally referred to any verse written in elegiac couplets and covering a wide range of subject matter (death, love, war). The ter.....
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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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• (n.) A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.
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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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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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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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In classical Greco-Roman literature, 'elegy' refers to any poem written in elegiac meter (alternatin
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A greek or latin form in alternating dactylic hexameter and dactylic pentameter lines
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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.
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a lament a melancholy compositionÂ
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A poem of mourning for someone who is dead: a meditative poem.
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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 mod...
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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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A mournful, contemplative lyric poem written to commemorate someone who is dead, often ending in a consolation.
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dignified verse that praises, laments, or meditates on a subject.
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a poem or song which is a lament, perhaps for someone or something which has died.
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lament noun a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
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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 erotic verse. In contemporary usage, the term refe...
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An instrumental lament with praise for the dead.
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a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, esp. a funeral song or a lament for the dead. · a poem written in elegiac meter. · a sad or mournful musical composition.
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[Literary terms] a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
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a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
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a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
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