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What (who) is Elegy - definition
LITERARY GENRE
Elegies
![''[[Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard]]'', illustration by [[William Blake]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William Blake - The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 107, "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard." - Google Art Project.jpg?width=200 "''[[Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard]]'', illustration by [[William Blake]].")
Elegy
·noun A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.
elegy
['?l?d?i]
¦ noun (plural elegies)
1. a mournful poem, typically a lament for the dead.
2. (in Greek and Latin verse) a poem written in elegiac couplets.
Origin
C16: from Fr. elegie, or via L., from Gk elegeia, from elegos 'mournful poem'.
elegy
(elegies)
An elegy is a sad poem, often about someone who has died.
...a touching elegy for a lost friend.
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Wikipedia
Elegy
An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, and in English literature usually a lament for the dead. However, according to The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy, "for all of its pervasiveness ... the 'elegy' remains remarkably ill defined: sometimes used as a catch-all to denominate texts of a somber or pessimistic tone, sometimes as a marker for textual monumentalizing, and sometimes strictly as a sign of a lament for the dead".
Examples of use of Elegy
1. Viking, is an elegy to the land and to the creatures who inhabit it.
2. Crowe‘s elegy to mourning could have benefited from more condensed storytelling.
3. Spanish actress Penelope Cruz is setting pulses racing with her steamy new film, Elegy.
4. "Recession–proof property – as long as it‘s waterproof," begins its delicate elegy to living next to the ocean waves.
5. Russian Alexander Sokurov will also present his new work «Elegy of Life» about virtuoso cellist Mstislav Rostropovich when he receives a Leopard of Honor for lifetime achievement.