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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.
The seven-part title poem is both an elegy for her and a poem about her island, Walcott's "mother-country."
The new lyrics (by Bernie Taupin), she says, are "as facile and pretty as a souvenir thimble"; the apparently hot new genre of pop elegy, she adds, is tacky.
Alfred Lord Tennyson published "In Memoriam AHH," more than a hundred verses of elegy and sorrow for his friend Arthur Henry Hallam.