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elegy

[el-i-jee] / ˈɛl ɪ dʒi /


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But the focus of this book is much more about the Diana era - and an elegy to the lost world of their childhood.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

The melodrama begins early on with the opening track, “Te Llevas To” — a moody EDM elegy that explores the loss of one’s self after a relationship ends.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

For in this moving elegy to innocence, the wayward boy was always fated to become a tragic hero.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

“Bread of Angels” is also an elegy, not just for lost loved ones but for times, places and even physical things.

From Salon ● Nov. 11, 2025

Bendix: “It was English. Mrs. Nally never cares if you’re late. Seriously, ask her. We were doing the metaphysical poets. Would you be in a rush to get yourself some pastoral elegy of John Donne?”

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

Ashura processions are usually dramatic affairs, with chanters singing elegies or dirges dedicated to Hussein, while audience members beat their chests and engage in displays of mourning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026

But amid the elegies written about American capitalism, the latest mini-IPO boom is a welcome tribute to the dynamism of U.S. markets that no other country can match.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

"But I felt as if I were writing elegies, actually."

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2023

The participants, mostly wearing black clothes, beat their chests and recited elegies in the commercial heart of Srinagar.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 27, 2023

This truth, which the conception of natural substance first makes intelligible, justifies the elegies which the poets of illusion and disillusion have always written upon human things.

From Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe by George Santayana


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