How To Use elegy In A Sentence
- 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. Día de los Muertos
- You can make a good case for the idea that all poetry is a form of elegy. Times, Sunday Times
- In that book Gross delivered some fine moral judgments and made a scholarly study into a strangely moving elegy. Times, Sunday Times
- The love poem has turned into something else with the death of the beloved, the acute sadness in the poem seeming to move it toward the elegy or threnody.
- Other epodes take up motifs from other contemporary genres (elegy in 11 and 15, pastoral in 2) but with significant alterations of tone: Horace ironically breaks the high emotional level of the models with a detached and distant closure.
- In his boyhood, the autobiographer is an unreconstructed rustic who might have stepped out of a pastoral elegy of Virgil or Theocritus.
- It takes us to the crematorial elegy land, the last lap of all journeys, sooner. Do Atheists Exist?
- Of these last the weightiest is the one at first called simply 'Elegy', and later 'The Walk'. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
- What, with careless exaggeration, he had said to a friend some months before, on setting forth his _Elegy on the Death of a Young Man_, "The thing has made my name hereabouts more famous than twenty years of practice would have done; but it is a name like that of him who burnt the Temple of Ephesus: God be merciful to me a sinner!" might now with all seriousness be said of the impression his _Robbers_ made on the harmless townsfolk of Stuttgart. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
