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Elegy

An elegy is a poem of mourning, from the Greek elegos, a reflection on the death of someone or on a sorrow generally. Some notable elegies include:

Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
John Milton's Lycidas
Percy Bysshe Shelley's Adonaïs
William Cullen Bryant's Thanatopsis
Walt Whitman's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam

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Friedrich Hoelderlin | Friedrich Hölderlin | Izaak Walton | Poem | PoetrY

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Elegy kheat!?! - January 22nd, 2006
my teacher asked us to search for a certain elegy and reflect or criticize it, and i could say that i am having a hard time! i hate to admit this but i hate literature...im not good at understanding poems...i hate it! i dont know how to read between the lines....arghha i hate my self... you see, why do this poets need to use those hyfaluting words which i barely understand.... their goal is to convey and evoke their emotions but it seems that they are also the ones who are making things difficult... is this how things are? cant read more » messages 1

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