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Elegy
Originally used for a type of poetic metre (Elegiac metre), the term elegy is also used for a poem of mourning, from the Greek elegos, a reflection on the death of someone or on a sorrow generally. Some notable elegies include:
- The Elegies of Propertius
- Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- Edmund Spenser's Astrophel
- 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
See also: elegiac couplet
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