Literary Forms Elegy Quiz : Elegy definition – According to Merriam Webster dictionary ‘an elegy is a song or poem expressing sorrow or lamentation especially for one who is dead’. It is a reflective and melancholic poetic form that laments the loss of someone or something significant, often having themes of mortality, grief, and remembrance. Traditionally, an elegy moves through three stages: an expression of sorrow, admiration for the subject, and eventual consolation or acceptance.
Some Famous Elegies in English Literature
| Elegy | Writer |
|---|---|
| Lycidas | John Milton |
| In Memoriam A.H.H. | Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| In Memory of W. B. Yeats | W. H. Auden |
| Adonais (An Elegy on the Death of John Keats) | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | Thomas Gray |
| When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d | Walt Whitman |
| Sonnet On the Death of Richard West | Thomas Gray |
| O Captain! My Captain! | Walt Whitman |
Literary Forms Elegy Quiz
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