Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village is an incomparable elegy, written not on the death of somebody, but on the degeneration and wasting away of an entire village, all virtues saying farewell to the village, one after one. It is a classical example of how an elegy should be and what it should be about, though the poem has never claimed the status of Elegy. It is made and meant to make all people who love society weep.
A poem lamenting the death of someone or something is called Elegy. Thomas Gray's Elegy Written In A Country Church Yard, Alfred Lord Tennyson's In Memorium, Oliver Goldsmith's Deserted Village and John Milton's Lycidas are famous Elegies in English.
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The elegy laments death. The elegy poem typically speaks about the grief that one feels after a loved one dies. It does not always have to be about the death of a person however. An example of this is "Verses upon the Burning of our House" in which Anne Bradstreet laments the death of her home.
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Elegy
A poem lamenting the death of someone or something is called Elegy. Thomas Gray's Elegy Written In A Country Church Yard, Alfred Lord Tennyson's In Memorium, Oliver Goldsmith's Deserted Village and John Milton's Lycidas are famous Elegies in English.
Elegy is the kind of poem that mourns the death of someone or something. Tennyson's In Memoriam mourns the death of his friend Arthur Hallam. Oliver Goldsmith's the Deserted Village is about the demise of a Village. Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard also is about the virtuous past of a village. There has also been 'Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog.'
An elegy is a essentially a sad poem. Some examples are songs that are played at funerals and scriptures that are read during a funeral.
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Alfred Lord Tennyson's In Memorium is a classic poem lamenting the death of his dearest friend Arthur Hallam to whom his sister was to be married. In this poem, he even uses the lines: 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
Elegy
The elegy laments death. The elegy poem typically speaks about the grief that one feels after a loved one dies. It does not always have to be about the death of a person however. An example of this is "Verses upon the Burning of our House" in which Anne Bradstreet laments the death of her home.
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No, it is not. Beowulf is an epic. Or alternatively, a Romance (meaning, similar to the whole knights and maidens thing, with chivalry and all that stuff). An Elegy is lamenting the death of someone. Which, while Beowulf does do at times, that is not the purpose of the work; it is meant to tell a story!
No, it is not. Beowulf is an epic. Or alternatively, a Romance (meaning, similar to the whole knights and maidens thing, with chivalry and all that stuff). An Elegy is lamenting the death of someone. Which, while Beowulf does do at times, that is not the purpose of the work; it is meant to tell a story!
A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.