ELEGY

Definition : a melancholy type of poem that is for the dead ones, especially a funeral song. Elegies are mostly for grieving.

Example :

No one knows what really happened to her,

All they know that she was naked and dead,

Some people say it was foul play some people say,

It was a blood vessel in her head,

But then i began to have these wierd dreams about her,

Some beautiful some horrible,

But how do we know whats real and whats a fantasy,

When Angie's not here to tell.


Significance : Elegy shows sorrow and melancholy emotion to honor a person who had died. Elegy is for use of lament and honoring someone who died. Elegy shifts grief to comfort and melancholy to soothing.