threnody

We can trace threnody back to a Greek root, threnodia, which means "lamentation." Examples of threnodies vary from A. E. Housman's 1896 poem "To an Athlete Dying Young" to Eric Clapton's 1991 song "Tears in Heaven," written after the death of his young son.

The birds spoke to him in a threnody of song, telling him the location of the evil treasure horde. She wished she had earplugs; the sounds were deafening, an eternal shrill threnody of nonlife.

Threnody. English has a number of words for songs performed to lament the dead. There are dirge, and elegy, and requiem. Threnody takes the Greek word for “dirge” (thrēnos) and applies the same ending found in comedy, tragedy, and melody.

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.

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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.

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