elegies
Poems for departed
Elegies are poems or songs of mourning, typically lamenting someone's death.
The form has ancient roots and follows conventions of grief, praise, and consolation: Milton's elegies for deceased friends.
More broadly, an elegy can be any mournful reflection on loss—of a person, a place, a way of life: The film is an elegy for small-town America.
Intense sorrow from loss
- lamentationPassionate expression of grief
- bereavementState following loss
- funeralService honoring the dead
- lossBeing without something
sorrow · remembrance · condolences · obituary · memorial · eulogy · dirge · requiem
Showing or feeling grief
- sorrowfulFilled with grief
- plaintiveSounding sad, sorrowful
- wistfulSadly longing for something
- somberGravely serious in mood
pensive · doleful · reflective · nostalgic · yearning · forlorn · lugubrious · bittersweet
Metered poetic passage
- stanzaPoem's line grouping
- meterDevice that measures usage
- rhymeMatching terminal sounds
- coupletTwo successive verse lines
lyric · ode · lament · refrain · quatrain · pastoral · pentameter · epitaph
Expression of deep respect
- honorHigh regard, moral dignity
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
- dedicationWholehearted loyalty to purpose
- celebrationFestive event marking occasion
recognition · acknowledgment · testimonial · praise · reverence · commemoration · salute · memorial
Serious and dignified
- reverentFeeling profound respect
- dignifiedComposed and respectable
- graveSerious and worrying
- statelyGrand and imposing
sacred · hallowed · ritualistic · formal · processional · liturgical · consecrated · devotional
grief
Intense sorrow from loss
- lamentationPassionate expression of grief
- bereavementState following loss
- funeralService honoring the dead
loss · sorrow · remembrance · condolences · obituary · memorial · eulogy · dirge · requiem · threnody
mournful
Showing or feeling grief
somber · pensive · doleful · reflective · nostalgic · yearning · forlorn · lugubrious · bittersweet · poignant
verse
Metered poetic passage
couplet · lyric · ode · lament · refrain · quatrain · pastoral · pentameter · epitaph · inscription
homage
Expression of deep respect
- honorHigh regard, moral dignity
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
- dedicationWholehearted loyalty to purpose
celebration · recognition · acknowledgment · testimonial · praise · reverence · commemoration · salute · memorial · appreciation
solemn
Serious and dignified
stately · sacred · hallowed · ritualistic · formal · processional · liturgical · consecrated · devotional · august
- Romantic PoetryWordsworth, Keats, William Wordsworth, Shelley, Coleridge
- Camoes Workssonnets, odes
- Celtic literaturehero tales, heroic tales, traditional tales, laments, annals
- Gryphius workstragedies, sonnets, funeral poems, odes, epigrams
- Latin scholarshipLatin poetry, philology, classical texts, paleography, lyric poetry
- Shia MourningAshura, Muharram, mourning, lamentation, Husayn ibn Ali
elegiescelebrations
Organized expressions of joy
paeans · encomiums · jubilations · hosannas · anthems
elegieswedding songs
Music for marriage ceremonies
birth announcements · cradle songs · lullabies · benedictions · inaugurals