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• n  a mournful poem; a lament for the dead

• She was a popular citizen and a touching elegy for her came out in the local newspaper.
• It was a heart rending elegy for a person who died of AIDS.
• 'I have an allergy for elegy so please don't write one for me when I am gone,' said the writer half jokingly.

• lament

News & Articles

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• Review: "Bad Monkey" by Carl Hiaasen is a rollicking ride
  BOOK REVIEW: “Bad Monkey” is both a rollicking murder mystery and an elegy to the Florida that is fast disappearing.
  June 25, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
• Review: "Bad Monkey" by Carl Hiaasen is a rollicking ride
  BOOK REVIEW: “Bad Monkey” is both a rollicking murder mystery and an elegy to the Florida that is fast disappearing.
  June 25, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune

Quotes

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• Andrzej Wajda in AFP
  This is an elegy, a film of mourning ...... not a political film,Wajda told reporters after the film was screened out of competition at the Berlin film festival. "It is too tragic to be manipulated from a political standpoint."
• Robert Burns in Dallas Morning News
  Poet Robert Burns wrote about it in "Tam Samson's Elegy": When to the loughs the curlers flock.
• Anne Carson in Harvard Crimson
  I have loved this poem since the first time I read it in high school Latin class and I have tried to translate it a number of times. Nothing in English can capture the passionate, slow surface of a Roman elegy,Carson writes. "No one (even...