Elegy

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For other uses, see Elegy (disambiguation).

Elegy was originally used for a type of poetic metre (Elegiac metre), but is also used for a poem of mourning, from the Greek elegos, a reflection on the death of someone or on a sorrow generally. In addition, an elegy (sometimes spelled elegíe) may be a type of musical work, usually in a sad and somber attitude. Not to be confused with a eulogy. Some notable elegies include:

• The Elegies of Propertius
• Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
• Edmund Spenser's Astrophel
• 'Collection of Elegies'
• John Milton's Lycidas
• Percy Bysshe Shelley's Adonaïs
• Evgeny Baratynsky's Autumn
• William Cullen Bryant's Thanatopsis
• Jan Kochanowski's Treny
• Walt Whitman's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
• Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam
• Chidiock Tichborne's Elegy
• The Old English poems The Wanderer, Beowulf and The Seafarer
• Charlotte Turner Smith's Elegiac Poems
• Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies

Musical elegies:

• Élégie, Gabriel Fauré
• Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, Charles Mingus
• An American Elegy, Frank Ticheli
• Elegy, Jethro Tull
• Elegy, Leaves' Eyes

[edit] See also

• elegiac couplet
• Elegy, album by John Zorn
• Elegy, album by Amorphis