Words similar to elegy

Example sentences for: elegy

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I said, "Dear Larry," as I put down his book, Elegy ,
Alfred Lord Tennyson published "In Memoriam AHH," more than a hundred verses of elegy and sorrow for his friend Arthur Henry Hallam.
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.
Finally, when he learns that Judy has been murdered, he can barely breathe, his anguish seems nearly unendurable, but it's only a momentary spasm, he regains his soulless equanimity, and as he quietly intones his last lines--"The greatest pleasure in life [is] the sweet, ever-changing caress of an early evening breeze"--we realize we've witnessed the exquisitely ironic fusion of elegy and despair, the inseparable linking of a brilliant text and a superb performance.
"To Autumn" is not just disturbed by a sense that autumn will inevitably pass into winter; it is an elegy for lost summer.