elegia

a. : a song or poem expressing sorrow or lamentation especially for one who is dead. b. : something (such as a speech) resembling such a song or poem. 3.

An elegy is a sad poem, usually written to praise and express sorrow for someone who is dead. Although a speech at a funeral is a eulogy, you might later compose an elegy to someone you have loved and lost to the grave. The purpose of this kind of poem is to express feelings rather than tell a story.

An elegy, defined most broadly, is a work of literature or music written to mourn a loss. Elegies are most common in poetry and music. Famous examples in poems include. "O Captain, My Captain" by Walt Whitman. "Stop All the Clocks" and "In Memory of W.B. Yeats" by W.H. Auden.

Examples include John Milton's “Lycidas”; Alfred, Lord Tennyson's “In Memoriam”; and Walt Whitman's “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.” More recently, Peter Sacks has elegized his father in “Natal Command,” and Mary Jo Bang has written “You Were You Are Elegy” and other poems for her son.

Etymology. The name of Mount Lebanon originates from the Phoenician root lbn (𐤋𐤁𐤍) meaning "white", apparently from its snow-capped peaks. Occurrences of the name have been found in different Middle Bronze Age texts from the library of Ebla, and three of the twelve tablets of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Uzbekistan. / (ˌʌzbɛkɪˈstɑːn) / noun. a republic in central Asia: annexed by Russia in the 19th century, it became a separate Soviet Socialist republic in 1924 and gained independence in 1991.

Methods, beliefs, ideas, etc. that are eclectic combine whatever seem the best or most useful things from many different areas or systems, rather than following a single system: an eclectic style/approach. an eclectic taste in literature.

The word elegy derives from the Greek élegos, "funeral lament.” It was among the first forms of the ancients, though in Greek literature it refers to a specific verse form as well as the emotions conveyed by it. Any poem using the particular meter of the elegiac couplet or elegiac distich was termed an elegy.

List of Popular Elegy Poems

• "In Memory of W.B. Yeats" by W.H. Auden.
• "To An Athlete Dying Young" by A.E. Housman.
• "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" by Emily Dickinson.
• "Death Stands Above Me" by Walter Savage Landor.
• "Dirge Without Music" by Edna St.
• "Lycidas" by John Milton.
• "In Memoriam A.H.H." by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

The elegy is a form of poetry in which the poet or speaker expresses grief, sadness, or loss. The elegy began as an ancient Greek metrical form and is traditionally written in response to the death of a person or group.

In music, an elegy is a type of sad and mournful song. Common themes in elegies often include the death of someone and lamenting over someone's death.

Lebanon is a primarily Arab country and shares many characteristics of other Arab nations, but there are also many properties that differentiate Lebanon from other countries in the region, such as its mountainous terrain, unique food, and its diverse religious and ethnic groups.