Example sentences for: elegies

How can you use “elegies” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • His greatest poems, most of them written in that same year, are elegies wrapped as odes.

  • The publication of two new books about former editor William Shawn has inspired another round of pompous elegies for the grand old New Yorker .)

  • One of the poet Edmund Spenser's (d.1599) most poignant elegies commemorates Douglas Howard Georges , the wife of Arthur Georges.

  • Despite its upbeat title, The Bounty is a book of elegies, a response to the "many deaths, nothing short of a massacre"--including the deaths of his mother and his close friend, the poet Joseph Brodsky--that Walcott has endured during his seventh decade.


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