is a lyric poem written to commemorate someone who is dead.
dignified verse that praises, laments, or meditates on a subject.
(OALD) poem or song expressing sorrow, esp for the dead; lament. (LTC) A poem written on the death of a friend of the poet. The ostensible purpose is to praise the friend, but death prompts the writer to ask, "If death can intervene so cruelly in life, what is the point of living?" By the end of the poem, however, we can expect that the poet will have come to terms with his or her grief.
A solemn, sorrowful poem or meditation about death in general or specifically for one who is dead.
": a poem in elegiac couplets 2 a: a song or poem expressing sorrow or lamentation especially for one who is dead : something (as a speech) resembling such a song or poem 3 a: a pensive or reflective poem that is usually nostalgic or melancholy : a short pensive musical composition."
a poem of mourning or remembrance
a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
a lyric poem lamenting death
a lyric representing sorrow for the dead or commemorating past happiness
a poem expressing grief for someone who is dead
a poem mourning the death of a friend
a poem or a piece of music
a poem that reflects upon death
a poem which laments the dead
a poetic response to the death of a greatly loved person
a somber poem or song that praises or laments the dead
a text, traditionally a poem, that is written on the occasion of human loss
a type of lyric poem, usually formal in structure and sad in its tone
a very sad and melancholic poem, and Gray himself suffered from melancholia
A mourning or lamentation poem, usually of a reflective nature, though not always about a specific dead person. In its usual modern sense, an elegy is a poem of lamentation for the dead. In Greek and Latin poetry, elegies were poems written in alternating pentameters and hexameters, called elegiac meter. They could deal with a broad variety of topics, and English elegies also tended to be discursive poems on meditative themes. Donne, following his Roman predecessors, wrote some elegies that are jocose, even bawdy.
A poem or song to honor a dead person.
a classical form of poetry used for serious themes. Traditionally it has been used as a means of meditation. Since the 1600's the elegy has been used primarily for meditations on death using a serious and often sombre tone.
A poem of lament, praise, and consolation, usually formal and sustained, over the death of a particular person; also, a meditative poem in plaintive or sorrowful mood, such as, " Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," by Thomas Gray. Sidelight: The pastoral elegy became conventional in the Renaissance and continued into the 19th century. Traditionally, pastoral elegies included an invocation, a lament in which all nature joined, praise, sympathy, and a closing consolation, as in John Milton's Lycidas.(See also Dirge, Epitaph, Monody)
A poetic meditation usually on love or death.
A poem that laments the death of a person, or one that is simply sad and thoughtful. An example of this type of poem is Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard."
A formal, meditative poem or lament for the dead.
in classical Greco-Roman literature) refers to any poem written in elegiac meter (alternating hexameter and pentameter lines). More broadly, elegy came to mean any poem dealing with the subject-matter common to the early Greco-Roman elegies--complaints about love, sustained formal lamentation, or somber meditations. The poem tends to be longer than a lyric but not as long as an epic and is not plot-driven.
a serious, formal poem of celebration or commemoration, usually though not always written on the occasion of a death.
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 by Tony Harrison.
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. In addition, an elegy (sometimes spelled elegÃe) may be a type of musical work, usually in a sad and somber attitude. Not to be confused with a eulogy.
Elegy is the third full-length album by Amorphis, and 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 Kanteletar by Elias Lönnrot in 1840.
"Elegy" is the twenty-second episode of the fourth season of The X-Files. Mulder and Scully track a series of murders that lead to a home for the mentally ill and a clue that makes no sense: each victim had a purported warning from the dead. However, while Mulder makes some surprising discoveries, Scully is reminded of her own mortality.