eleji, ağıt

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Definition von eleji, ağıt im Türkisch Englisch wörterbuch

{i} elegy

A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation

{n} a funeral poem, a plaintive song

a lyric poem lamenting the dead

In classical Greco-Roman literature, "elegy" refers to any poem written in elegiac meter (alternating hexameter and pentameter lines) More broadly, elegy came to mean any poem dealing with the subject-matter common to the early Greco-Roman elegies--complaints about love, sustained formal lamentation, or somber meditations Typically, elegies are marked by several conventions of genre

Long, formal poem of mourning or lament for the death of a particular person Also serious meditations on human transience

musical work similar in character to a sad or melancholy poem; especially for a mourner of a dead person

A poem that laments the death of a person, or one that is simply sad and thoughtful An example of this type of poem is Thomas Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ”

in classical times, any poem on any subject written in "elegiac" meter; since the Renaissance, usually a formal lament on the death of a particular person

A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation

"1: a poem in elegiac couplets 2 a: a song or poem expressing sorrow or lamentation especially for one who is dead b: something (as a speech) resembling such a song or poem 3 a: a pensive or reflective poem that is usually nostalgic or melancholy b: a short pensive musical composition "

A dirge or memorial poem

A poem of lament, usually formal and sustained, over the death of a particular person; also, a meditative poem in plaintive or sorrowful mood, such as, " Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," by Thomas Gray Sidelight: The pastoral elegy became conventional in the Renaissance and continued into the nineteenth century Traditionally, pastoral elegies included an invocation, a lament in which all nature joined, praise, sympathy, and a closing consolation, as in John Milton's Lycidas (See also Dirge, Epitaph, Monody)

a Greek or Latin form in alternating dactylic hexameter and dactylic pentameter lines; and a melancholy poem lamenting its subject's death but ending in consolation Examples in English include John Milton's "Lycidas," Thomas Gray's "Elegy," Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Adonais," Alfred lord Tennyson's "In Memoriam," Matthew Arnold's "Thyrsis," Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Wreck of the Deutschland," and Walt Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed " Ambrose Pierce parodies Gray's poem in "Elegy "

{i} lament, dirge, mournful poem

An elegy is a sad poem, often about someone who has died. a touching elegy for a lost friend. elegies a sad poem or song, especially about someone who has died eulogy. Meditative lyric poem. The classical elegy was any poem written in elegiac metre (alternating lines of dactylic hexameter and pentameter). Today the term may refer to this metre rather than to content, but in English literature since the 16th century it has meant a lament in any metre. A distinct variety with a formal pattern is the pastoral elegy, such as John Milton's "Lycidas" (1638). Poets of the 18th-century Graveyard School reflected on death and immortality in elegies, most famously Thomas Gray's "An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard" (1751)

A poetic meditation usually on love or death

A melancholy piece

a mournful poem; a lament for the dead

A lament, often for the deceased or a time passed An elegy may take the form of a song or of an instrumental composition

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