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Example sentences for: elegy

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The seven-part title poem is both an elegy for her and a poem about her island, Walcott's "mother-country."
Auden uses the adjective in his elegy for the poet, and it is supposed to include all of us: "You were silly like us."
Another Quindlen-like figure was William Allen White, the great turn-of-the-century editor of the Emporia, Kansas, Gazette , who deployed his aw-shucks tone to attack heartland know-nothingism and populism, but whose greatest column is widely acknowledged to be his elegy to his daughter, who died after she ran into a low-hanging branch while riding a horse.
Klapp, Entertainment Weekly ). But Vonnegut's very effort evokes a note of elegy.
Elegy on the Death of Sidney