That is, modern family elegies, though occasioned by death, do not seek compensation for that loss. |
I would argue that what links these modern elegies is the focus on a relationship ruptured prior to death. |
Except for writers of obituaries and elegies, no serious biographer judges his subject under the aspect of eternity. |
To commemorate his death anniversary Salar Jung Museum has organised a special exhibition of manuscripts, dirges and elegies. |
And unlike the elegies the sonnets are predominantly poems of invocation, apostrophe and direct address, he writes. |
He was one of the most versatile of Roman poets, who wrote love poems, elegies, and satirical epigrams with equal success. |