| 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. |
| In his boyhood, the autobiographer is an unreconstructed rustic who might have stepped out of a pastoral elegy of Virgil or Theocritus. |
| Addison was buried in Westminster Abbey, and lamented in an elegy by Tickell. |
| Similarly, the somber and threnodic second movement proves to be an elegy for the idealization of a war hero. |
| There is a certain lightness of tone in this poem that alleviates the heaviness of elegy. |
| Within the logic of traditional elegy, this step is integral to the process of poetic maturation. |
