![]() ![]() The following additional definition of the term elegy is reprinted from A Poet's Glossary by Edward Hirsch.Ī poem of mortal loss and consolation. Other works that can be considered elegiac in the broader sense are James Merrill’s monumental The Changing Light at Sandover, Robert Lowell’s “ For the Union Dead,” Seamus Heaney’s The Haw Lantern, and the work of Czeslaw Milosz, which often laments the modern cruelties he witnessed in Europe. ![]() A famous example is the mournful series of ten poems in Duino Elegies, by German poet Rainer Maria Rilke. ![]() Many modern elegies have been written not out of a sense of personal grief, but rather a broad feeling of loss and metaphysical sadness. Other well-known elegies include “ Fugue of Death” by Paul Celan, written for victims of the Holocaust, and “ O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman, written for President Abraham Lincoln. Yeats,” written for the Irish master, which includes these stanzas: First, there is a lament, where the speaker expresses grief and sorrow, then praise and admiration of the idealized dead, and finally consolation and solace. The elements of a traditional elegy mirror three stages of loss. Though similar in function, the elegy is distinct from the epitaph, ode, and eulogy: the epitaph is very brief the ode solely exalts and the eulogy is most often written in formal prose. The elegy began as an ancient Greek metrical form and is traditionally written in response to the death of a person or group. The elegy is a form of poetry in which the poet or speaker expresses grief, sadness, or loss. ![]()
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