dirge

A dirge is a slow, sad song or piece of music. Dirges are sometimes performed at funerals. the mournful dirge, 'Erin's Lament'. Synonyms: lament, requiem, elegy, death march More Synonyms of dirge.

a funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in commemoration of the dead. any composition resembling such a song or tune in character, as a poem of lament for the dead or solemn, mournful music: Tennyson's dirge for the Duke of Wellington.

In creative writing, a dirge refers to a mournful song or piece of music. It is often used to create a sorrowful or melancholic tone in literature, serving as a reflection of loss, grief, or death. A dirge can also refer to a poem, which is typically written in elegiac stanzas and expressed in a somber, funereal style.

A brief hymn or song of lamentation and grief; it was typically composed to be performed at a funeral.

Examples of dirge

• It was a funeral dirge over the whole of his party's philosophy and programme.
• There is a dirge in my heart, in fact!
• All we heard was a dirge of despair and depression about the future.
• The song has ended but the dirge lingers on.

The genre comes from the Greek epicedium, a song sung over the dead, and the Greek threnody, a song sung in memory of the dead. In fifth-century Greece, lyric dirges were sung, not just at funerals and other ceremonies commemorating the dead, but also at festivals.

A dirge is a song of mourning, performed as a memorial to someone who's died. As you might imagine, a dirge is usually quite sad. Another word with a similar meaning that you might know is “requiem.”

/dədʒ/ A dirge is a song of mourning, performed as a memorial to someone who's died. As you might imagine, a dirge is usually quite sad. Another word with a similar meaning that you might know is “requiem.”

Examples of Dirges in Poetry The beech, upon a nameless grave, Its sadly-moving shadow throws. The poem concludes with a powerful three-line phrase: “he is here.” This refers back to the story Longfellow crafts within the lines about two lovers, one of whom is buried there. Read more Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poems.

The wail of the storm seemed a dirge to pent thoughts. A small boy swings the smoking censer, and the singers undertake a melancholy dirge. Perceiving a strange relapse of opposition in me, wife and daughters began a soft and dirge-like, melancholy tolling over it.

Edna St. Vincent Millay Dirge Without Music by Edna St. Vincent Millay | Poetry Foundation.

A dirge (Latin: dirige, naenia) is a somber song or lament expressing mourning or grief, such as would be appropriate for performance at a funeral.