Elegy
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
- 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
- Kamau Brathwaite's Kumina
- Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
Musical elegies:
- Élégie, Gabriel Fauré
- Élégie, Sergei_Rachmaninoff
- Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, Charles Mingus
- An American Elegy, Frank Ticheli
- Elegy, Jethro Tull
- Elegy, Leaves' Eyes
See also
- elegiac couplet
- Elegy, album by John Zorn
- Elegy, album by Amorphis