Assertion: elegy | /r/HasProperty | poem
Facets:
value: originally
type: DEGREE
value: by definition
type: OTHER
value: in classic literature
type: LOCATION
value: for the deceased
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: by thomas gray
type: OTHER
value: simply
type: MANNER
value: generally
type: DEGREE
value: about death
type: OTHER
value: in heroic couplets by alexander pope
type: LOCATION
value: in greek and roman poetry
type: LOCATION
value: about dying
type: OTHER
value: for modern and contemporary poets
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: For modern and contemporary poets, the elegy is a poem that deals with the subjects of death or mortality, but has no set form, meter, or rhyme scheme.
text: In classical literature an elegy was simply any poem written in the elegiac metre (alternating lines of dactylic hexameter and pentameter) and was not restricted as to subject.
text: Historically speaking, an elegy is a poem, one expressing sorrow or melancholy.
text: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is a poem by Thomas Gray, completed in 1750 and first published in 1751.
text: An elegy is a poem or a song, whereas a eulogy is a speech or written tribute.
text: Originally, in Greek and Roman poetry, an elegy was a poem written in elegiac verse, which included couplets consisting of a hexameter line followed by a pentameter line.
text: An elegy is a poem lamenting the loss of a someone or something special.
text: An elegy is a song, a poem, or some other lyrical work that evokes a lamenting or grieving mood, especially when composed or performed to honor the dead.
text: "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady" is a poem in heroic couplets by Alexander Pope, first published in his Works of 1717.
text: An elegy is a poem which laments the dead.
text: An elegy is a poem which shows serious reflection on the part of the speaker and typically laments the loss of a loved one.
text: An elegy is a poem that honors the dead.
text: An elegy was originally a poem written in a particular meter, called elegiac.
text: An elegy is not just pessimistic: by definition, an elegy is a poem about death or dying.
text: An elegy is a poem meant for a funeral, it is a sad poetry about the deceased and is usually saved for the viewing or funeral.
text: Elegy For a Stillborn Child written by Seamus Heaney is a poem about the death of his friend's stillborn child.
text: An elegy was originally a poem written in a particular meter, called elegiac.
text: An elegy is a poem written to memorialize the dead.
text: Roethke's "Elegy for Jane" is, well, an elegy (a poem reflecting on someone's death).
text: According to its classical definition, an elegy is a poem written in honor of some loved or esteemed person who has died.
text: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is a poem by Thomas Gray, completed in 1750 and first published in 1751.
text: An elegy is a mournful song or poem, especially for the deceased.
text: An elegy is a mournful song or poem, especially for the deceased.
text: Elegies are generally poems that center on the death of a specific person, such as Milton’s “Lycidas,” but Gray uses the elegiac form to explore death as a universal experience that mankind must understand and accept.
text: Elegies are poems dedicated to the dead.
text: Eulogies should not be confused with elegies, which are poems written in tribute to the dead; nor with obituaries, which are published biographies recounting the lives of those who have recently died; nor with obsequies, which refer generally to the rituals surrounding funerals.
text: In classic literature, an elegy was simply any poem written in elegiac meter and was not restricted by its subject.
text: An elegos was properly a song of lament, but most of the earliest elegies we have are not laments; the elegiac couplet was instead an all-purpose meter, and an elegy was any poem written in elegiacs.