| Similarly, the somber and threnodic second movement proves to be an elegy for the idealization of a war hero. |
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| Belcher mentions Dylan Thomas's elegy for his father in connection with this piece. |
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| In his boyhood, the autobiographer is an unreconstructed rustic who might have stepped out of a pastoral elegy of Virgil or Theocritus. |
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| Before leaving the city, Henry composed a simple but attractive little piece in A minor entitled Cymric elegy, for three-part string orchestra. |
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| Addison was buried in Westminster Abbey, and lamented in an elegy by Tickell. |
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| Within the logic of traditional elegy, this step is integral to the process of poetic maturation. |
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| The texts I shall consider are fascinating in themselves, but they also contribute to our understanding of modern elegy in general. |
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| If we take Byron seriously, we can turn the mask of tragedy into the mask of comedy only by replacing the elegy with the epithalamium. |
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| There is a certain lightness of tone in this poem that alleviates the heaviness of elegy. |
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| If you haven't figured it yet, this is an elegy to my city's once quiet, sedate, pleasant city roads, a haven for motorists. |
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| A full understanding of elegy needs to move beyond a syntagmatic analysis and follow the genre in its evolution. |
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| His verse is both metrically and formally experimental, ranging from satire to love lyric, from sonnet to verse epistle, from elegy to hymn. |
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| Smith's innovation in the Elegiac Sonnets derives from the ways in which the formal traditions of sonnet and elegy converge. |
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| The allemande is a veritable elegy, extremely contemplative by design, delighting the ear with the grace of its serene majesty. |
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| That this is an elegy only makes the poem more poignant, makes the grief of the persona part of the political indignation, complicates the emotional nexus of the voice. |
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| Mythology is not forgotten and the sea recites to us the elegy, a long poem that can not finish, because too intense and too addictive. |
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| The Merwin canon can be read as an elegy for canonicity, as a poetic investigation of extinction in which the language of elegy itself is one of the most endangered species. |
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| The early death of the poet's brother haunts the book, and there is an elegy for him, and more than one portrait of him as a delinquent headed for an early grave. |
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| Auden's elegy for Sigmund Freud follows the alcaic syllable-count. |
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| I hope this is not an elegy in the sense that what it represents is not lost but it could become an elegy. |
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| White Nights By Fyodor Dostoyevsky White Nights is also an elegy to a love that never was. |
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| We found that his stanza form in Don Juan does make subjects read more quickly than readers focusing on the rhymes of an elegy in a similar metre. |
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| In the context of elegy and of lyric, however, this marks a distinct departure, and one that acquires weight as print becomes a commodity consumed by unknown readers. |
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| The love poem has turned into something else with the death of the beloved, the acute sadness in the poem seeming to move it toward the elegy or threnody. |
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| On the one hand, it's easy to understand the poem as an elegy for a loved person who has been married out of existence. |
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| As elegy for them, a scratchy recording suddenly blossomed into perfect mimicry of the woodlark's song. |
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| The elegy, as real poems do, brings us to a place where words give way to the music of silence, where we approach the unsayable and bow before it. |
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| That final line transforms the poem into an elegy for his father, the source of lament that drove the speaker into nature and into thoughts of dying. |
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| So it was that William Byrd in 1585 paid homage to his master Thomas Tallis with the elegy Ye sacred Muses. |
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| Musical ideas came spontaneously while Kris Defoort was reading this quiet elegy. |
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| An ode to the respect given to the elder brother, this tale reveals every facet of the Korean soul, from laughter to tears, from farce to elegy, from the trivial to the fantastical, from high to folk art. |
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| No mention of elegy about royal letter of credit. |
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| But it's also worth pointing out that on the rare occasions poetry does triumph in mainstream literary awards such as the Costa, the judges usually go for some kind of elegy. |
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| These sequences also serve as a showcase for the film's strong cinematography, which captures the mountains, forests, and rivers around the camps as if composing an elegy. |
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| Well-known poems also sound from some of the showers, odes with a water theme like Heinrich Heine's famous elegy about the mermaid Loreley on the cliff above the Rhine. |
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| Here is a novel of low comedy and high raillery. It's a lollapalooza that turns out to be a comic elegy for old-time radio. |
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| Composed in 1992 in memory of a young flutist and dedicated to Roberto Fabbriciani, Doloroso is a very short elegy, an eloquent symbol of the tension of an ongoing search for oneself. |
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| We are brought, with elegance and style, with dry wit and orneriness, to elegy. |
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| The Latin elegy reached its highest development in the works of Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid. |
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| Other forms in the play include an epithalamium by Juliet, a rhapsody in Mercutio's Queen Mab speech, and an elegy by Paris. |
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| A poem dated to the first half of the 11th century is an elegy for Aeddon, a landowner on Anglesey. |
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| A melancholy undersong marks the film as a preemptive elegy for his mother. |
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| Gray also wrote light verse, including Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes, a mock elegy concerning Horace Walpole's cat. |
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| Byrd wrote the musical elegy Ye Sacred Muses on Tallis's death. |
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| Inspired by the death of Keats, in 1821 Shelley wrote the elegy Adonais. |
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