Meaning & use
Elegies
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Poems or songs of serious reflection, typically mourning the dead; plural of 'elegy.'
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The poet wrote several elegies after his brother's death.
The collection includes elegies for lost friends and vanished landscapes.
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From the Greek 'elegeia,' originally referring to a metrical form before it came to mean a mournful poem.
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