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Definition of Elegies

Elegies
Elegy El"e*gy, n.; pl. Elegies. [L. elegia, Gr. ?, fem. sing. (cf. ?, prop., neut. pl. of ? a distich in elegiac verse), fr. ? elegiac, fr. ? a song of mourning.] A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation. --Shak.

Meaning of Elegies from wikipedia

- world—namely Shia Islam, the most famous examples are elegies written by Sachay Bhai on the Battle of Karbala. Elegies written on Husayn ibn Ali and his followers...
- first poet to set his elegies in Arcadia, a favorite location of pastoral literature to come. Developed over centuries, pastoral elegies mourn a subject by...
- Look up elegy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An elegy is a poem of mourning. Elegy, Elegie, or Elegies may also refer to: Élégie, a painting by William-Adolphe...
- The Duino Elegies (German: Duineser Elegien) are a collection of ten elegies written by the Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. He was then "widely...
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- Homeland Elegies "the book of the year". Based on a survey of 31 reviews from literary journalists, Literary Hub's Book Marks rated Homeland Elegies' critical...
- Elegies (エレジーズ, erejiizu) is the ****o! Project 2005 shuffle group consisting of Ai Takahashi and Reina Tanaka of Morning Musume, along with Melon Kinenbi's...
- Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis is a 2016 memoir by U.S. vice president-elect JD Vance about the Appalachian values of his...
- Osaka Elegy (****anese: 浪華悲歌, Hepburn: Naniwa Erejī, lit. "Naniwa Elegy") is a 1936 ****anese drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. It forms a diptych...
- thereafter, the Duino Elegies were quickly recognized by critics and scholars as Rilke's most important work. The Duino Elegies are intensely religious...