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Elegy El Eh Gee Noun Lament Dead Modern Tend Unconvincing

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(EL-eh-gee), noun

A lament for the dead.

“Modern ELEGIES tend to be unconvincing because the poet so clearly believes in the immortality that an ELEGY traditionally claims for its subject.” – Edward Mendelson, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Colombia University

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