Elegy
About “Elegy”:
An elegy is a poem or song of serious reflection, expressing feelings of melancholy, grief or extreme sorrow. It is not to be confused with a eulogy, which is a speech or writing in praise of a dead person. However, according to The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy, "For all of its pervasiveness ... the 'elegy' remains remarkably ill defined: sometimes used as a catch-all to denominate texts of a somber or pessimistic tone, sometimes as a marker for textual monumentalizing, and sometimes strictly as a sign of a lament for the dead."
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