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Example sentences for: elegy

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

It is important for the reader of the "Elegy on the Death of Sidney" to realize that Sidney--a brilliant writer, of extremely noble family, a statesman and soldier who died of war wounds at the age of 32--was looked on as a kind of perfect man: one born with the greatest advantages, who had the talent and goodness to make the best of them.
Auden uses the adjective in his elegy for the poet, and it is supposed to include all of us: "You were silly like us."
"To Autumn" is not just disturbed by a sense that autumn will inevitably pass into winter; it is an elegy for lost summer.
Klapp, Entertainment Weekly ). But Vonnegut's very effort evokes a note of elegy.
Foster--who also analyzed Primary Colors last year and accurately identified Joe Klein as the author--discovered the elegy in 1984 and, in last October's issue of PMLA , wrote that it "is formed from textual and linguistic fabric indistinguishable from that of canonical Shakespeare."