1. What is the primary subject of an elegy?
2. Which perspective is typically used in elegies?
3. What is the usual emotional tone of an elegy?
4. What is the term for the traditional stanza used in 18th-century English elegies?
5. What is a pastoral elegy?
6. What does the poet typically find in a pastoral elegy?
7. Which Roman poet is known for writing pastoral elegies?
8. Which famous elegy by Milton is an example of a pastoral elegy?
9. What does the poet usually seek through writing an elegy?
10. What poetic form is used in Wordsworth’s "Elegiac Stanzas"?
11. Which poet wrote "In Memoriam," often considered one of the most famous elegy?
12. How does "The Wanderer" differ from traditional elegies?
13. What is the defining meter of ancient elegiac couplets?
14. Which poet wrote the elegy "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d"?
15. Who is the deceased subject in Whitman’s "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d"?
16. Which 18th-century poet wrote the famous elegy "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"?
17. In the elegiac stanza, how many iambs are there per line?
18. What is a significant feature of the pastoral elegy "Lycidas"?
19. What is the tone at the conclusion of most elegies?
20. How did Romantic poets reinterpret the elegy?
