elegy
IPA: ˈɛɫʌdʒi
noun
- A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.
- (music) A composition of mournful character.
- A classical poem written in elegiac meter
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Examples of "elegy" in Sentences
- This song illustrates the form of the elegy.
- Elegy on the death of James Jenkin of Alverton.
- An elegy for Vizzini was pinned to the church door.
- He is noted for his elegy on the death of Tudur Aled.
- He also freed the elegy from the Classical elegiac meter.
- It was released in the UK under the title 'Elegy' in 2001.
- Another was his elegy on the death of the Duchess of Frias.
- It is like an elegy for the group, and the ending of an era.
- An elegy is a form of poetry that mourns the loss of someone.
- The annex'd elegy is on a gravestone in the churchyard at Hythe.
- 1794.14 - "The annex'd elegy is on a gravestone in the churchyard at Hythe."
- The best evidence that he often played the role comes from his funeral elegy.
- The form of the elegy is a dialogue betwixt a passenger and a domestic servant.
- War Poetry in the Age of Romanticism 1793-1815/1794.14 "The annex'd elegy is on a gravestone in the churchyard at Hythe." "
- The other elegy is shorter and less striking in conception, but gives a similar impression of the importance assigned to Louis de
- The elegy is one of our necessary forms as we try to come to terms with the fact that people around us die, that we, too, will die.
- The second alphabetical elegy is set to the same mournful tune with the former, and the substance of it is much the same; it begins with Ecah, as that did, How sad is our case!
- As elsewhere in Canto 2, here the occasion for elegy is young male loveliness dead betimes: "Thou art gone, thou lov'd and lovely one,/Whom youth and youth's affection bound to me" (st.
- Except the fifth elegy, which is tainted with immodesty, the others, particularly the first, are highly beautiful, and may be placed in competition with any other productions of the elegiac kind.
- This inimitable pathetic elegy is supposed by many writers to have become a national war song, and to have been taught to the young Israelites under the name of "The Bow," in conformity with the practice of Hebrew and many classical writers in giving titles to their songs from the principal theme (Ps 22: 1; 56: 1; 60: 1; 80: 1; 100: 1).