Definitions for "ELEGY"
Keywords:  lament, poem, mourning, sorrow, lyric
A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. The most famous English example begins somewhat like this: The cur foretells the knell of parting day; The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The wise man homeward plods; I only stay To fiddle-faddle in a minor key.
A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.
in classical times, any poem on any subject written in "elegiac" meter; since the Renaissance, usually a formal lament on the death of a particular person.
eponymous | elements | emblem | end stopping | enjambement | epic simile | epigram | epistle | epitaph | eulogy | euphemism | euphony | euphuism | exemplum | eye rhyme
Keywords:  laars, krull, kristine, henk, liv
Elegy is a Dutch power metal band. Elegy's founding guitar player was Henk van de Laars. He left the band sometime in 2000.
Elegy is an EP by gothic metal band Leaves' Eyes. It was released on May 2nd, 2005. Almost all vocals are by Liv Kristine, with some backing "growls" by Alexander Krull.
a disease peculiar to some very posh, but lazy, choristers, said to be "elegaic to hard work" by choirmasters