ELEGY

Type of lyric poem: A sad, solemn poem written when someone dies, to lament (mourn) for the person who died.

1. ELEGY

2. Type of lyric poem A sad, solemn poem written when someone dies, to lament ( mourn) for the person who died.

3. Origins from 7th Century B.C. ancient Greece Written in response to death

4. TONE OF ELEGY Melancholy tone Mourning a person, or object

5. EXAMPLES OF ELEGY " Fugue of Death" - Paul Celan "O Captain! My Captain!" - Walt Whitman "To An Athlete Dying Young" - Alfred Edward Housman "Friend," - Jean Valentine "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" - Thomas Grey

6. A traditional elegy has three basic parts that come in order in the poem: 1) Grief: an expression of sadness 2) Admiration: praise for the recently deceased 3) Acceptance: coming to terms with loss