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Elegy

The word "elegy" comes from the Greek word for lament. The historical form is a melancholy poem that meditates on death through themes of war, nature, or the loss of a person.

#Some famous elegies are:

Ben Jonson, 'On My First Sonnet'.

John Milton, 'Lycidas'.

Katherine Philips, 'Epitaph'.

Thomas Gray, 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, ' Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats'.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 'In Memoriam of A. H. '

W.H. Auden's 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats'.

Walt Whitman's 'O Captain! My Captain! '

Christina Rossetti, 'A Dirge'.

Alphonse de Lamartine, 'The Lake'.

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