0 a sad poem or song, especially remembering someone who has died or something in the past -- （尤指懷念故人或往事的）輓歌；輓詩；哀歌
The opening elegy, starting from restless repetition of a single pitch, opens out to a refined, rich design.
Turning now to elegy, the elegiac couplet consists of a line of dactylic hexameter plus a line of dactylic ' pentameter ' so-called, actually two small lines.
The piece is, however, rather more than a technical exercise, the climactic threnody and final elegy achieving real eloquence.
The poem is an elegy, but also a eulogy, a dramatic narrative of praise, enhanced (or 'amplified', to use the rhetoricians' term) with all the colours of rhetoric.
The eight-minute second movement, marked = c. 48, opens with a brief solo elegy from the violin, which is soon joined by tolling piano chords which roll into a bluesy nightscape.
They preferred to produce elegies, comedies, and, finally and most famously, psychological novels which had little to do with the sublime and effectively subverted the authoritative.
Literary forms varied, from ode, pastorals and sonnets to elegy, satire and romance.
Lyrical poetry, odes, pastorals, elegies, epigrams; dramatic presentations of comedy and tragedy; histories, rhetorical treatises, philosophical dialectics, and philosophical treatises all arose in this period.
