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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'.