elegy vs eulogy
Definitions
noun
- a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
Examples
The actors themselves are firmly located in contemporary Rome: the vivid specificity of the social milieux is sometimes more reminiscent of satire than of earlier elegy.
The elegy is one of our necessary forms as we try to come to terms with the fact that people around us die, that we, too, will die.
You can make a good case for the idea that all poetry is a form of elegy.
Definitions
noun
- a formal expression of praise for someone who has died recently
- a formal expression of praise
Examples
The poems are the three panegyrics with their appendixes; two epithalamia; an acknowledgment to Faustus of Reji (now Riez), a eulogy of Narbonne, or rather, of two citizens of Narbonne; a description of the castle (burgas) of Leontius, etc.
Anyone within earshot of a eulogy is supposed to listen respectfully.
I'm sorry I didn't mention that when I wrote his obituary or delivered his eulogy.
