Elegy
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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 elegíe) may be a type of musical work, usually in a sad and somber attitude. Not to be confused with a eulogy. Some notable elegies include:
- The Elegies of Propertius
- Thomas Gray's [Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard]
- Edmund Spenser's Astrophel
- John Milton's Lycidas
- Percy Bysshe Shelley's Adonaïs
- Evgeny Baratynsky's Autumn
- William Cullen Bryant's Thanatopsis
- Walt Whitman's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
- Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam
- Chidiock Tichborne's Elegy
- Old English poems The Wanderer and The Seafarer
- Charlotte Turner Smith's Elegiac Poems
- Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies
- Élégie, Op. 24, Gabriel Fauré
- Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, Charles Mingus
See also
- elegiac couplet
- Elegy, album by John Zorn
- Elegy (Amorphis album)
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