Elegy
By Maddie Cureton
Overview
The Elegy began as an ancient Greek metrical form, and is a traditionally written in response to the death of a person or a group. Their are three traditional elegy mirror, the three stages are, a Lament- where the speaker expresses grief and sorrow, then Praise, and Admiration of the idealized dead.
Purpose
Elegy started to be written in poems when Thomas Gray began writing in a Country Churchyard in 1746. At this time with elegiac poetry, gives the poem an appropriate stately pace.
Characteristic
It has consisted of a continual thrust to transcend the defining physical limitations of the art, from Wordsworth jettisoning.
Example of poetic form
With the farming of a verse
Make a vineyard of the curse,
Sing of human unsuccess
In a rapture of distress;
In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountain start,
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise.
Make a vineyard of the curse,
Sing of human unsuccess
In a rapture of distress;
In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountain start,
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise.
Work Cited
Gray, Thomas. "Poetic Form For Elegy." Poets.org. Academy of American Poets, n.d. Web. 04 Dec. 2014.