Elegy Definition | What is Elegy? - PoetrySoup
Definition
[n] a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
A poem of mourning, or, a sad and thoughtful poem about the death of an individual.
Example
Elegy by Ambrose Bierce
The cur foretells the knell of parting day;
The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea;
The wise man homewards plods; I only stay
To fiddle-faddle in a minor key.
See Also...
poem, verse form
Related Terms
alba, anacreontic, balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic, canso, chanson, clerihew, coronach, dead march, death knell, death song, dirge, dithyramb, eclogue, English sonnet, epic, epicedium, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, eulogy, funeral
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