And before you reach the end you will have encountered en route pretty nearly all the moods of poetry that exist: tragic, humorous, ironic, elegiac, lyric—everything.
I turn now to the elegiac poets of modern times.
Rather tender and elegiac than vigorous, the deep sadness underlying the most sparkling forms of his work is most notable.
She concluded in the following elegiac strain, which did not fail to touch our sympathies.
Six lines in elegiac couplets.
Examplesofelegiac
elegiac
They evoke the munificence of the earth, theelegiacroutine of seasons and a long family line, and quietly glorify the vernacular.
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I would characterize this attitude aselegiac, expressing a feeling of irrecoverable loss with respect to the past.
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While it is hard not to beelegiacabout these lost opportunities, we do resist the temptation.
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He rounds off the first and second movements by taking 'time out', detached and distant, to make his ownelegiaccommentaries.
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In fact all three movements end in a fading pianissimo, lending the work anelegiac, contemplative character.
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In this slow-moving, old-fashioned,elegiacpiece the ghosts of the past are gradually exorcized.
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The beauty of the prose and theelegiactone here emphasize the power of nostalgia.
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Turning now to elegy, theelegiaccouplet consists of a line of dactylic hexameter plus a line of dactylic ' pentameter ' so-called, actually two small lines.
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This reference to the descending tetrachord bass, a conventional topic signifying lament, reinforces theelegiaccharacter of the work.
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Monteore thus evokes anelegiactone and focuses on loss rather than on military exploits.
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Anelegiaccharacter is already suggested by the very opening of the piece, which draws upon the conventional affective associations of the barcarolle rhythm with melancholy and lament.
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Written in memory of a fellow composer who died young, itselegiactone is established at the start with distant trumpet calls that return at the end of the piece.
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I consider that to be much moreelegiacand poetical.
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One of the features of the debate has been an almostelegiacsense of the passing of one of the finest assets that this country has ever had.
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Motifs of emptiness and absence haunt the novel and establish itselegiacfeel.
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