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单词 elegy
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elegyn.

Brit. /ˈɛlədʒi/, U.S. /ˈɛlədʒi/
Forms: 1500s–1600s elegie, 1500s–1600s ellegie, 1500s– elegy, 1600s elegee, 1600s elige, 1600s ellegy, 1600s elligie; also Scottish pre-1700 elygee.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French elegie.
Etymology: < Middle French elegie (French élégie ) poem of lamentation (c1500 as elegyes , plural) < classical Latin elegīa elegiac poetry < ancient Greek ἐλεγεία literary poem in elegiacs, in Hellenistic Greek also elegiac poetry as a genre < ἔλεγος sung lament, of unknown origin + -εία -y suffix3. Compare Catalan elegia (1653), Spanish elegía (15th cent.), Portuguese elegia (1563), Italian elegia (a1375). Compare earlier elegiacal adj.In sense 2b after ancient Greek ἐλεγεῖον elegiac couplet; compare classical Latin elegī (plural) elegiac verses, especially used in composing love poems.
1.
a. A song or poem of lamentation, esp. for the dead; a memorial poem. Also as a mass noun.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > obsequies > formal or ceremonial mourning > [noun] > formal lamentation > dirge
elegy?1521
coronach1559
dirge1568
requiem1578
threne1593
threnos1601
death song1613
monody1623
threnody1634
throb1635
trental1648
lament1698
myriologue1824
keen1830
threnode1858
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > dirge or lament
threne?a1475
elegy?1521
dumpa1556
coronach1559
dirge1568
requiem1578
threnos1601
planctusa1612
death song1613
monody1623
threnody1634
trental1648
lament1698
myriologue1824
keen1830
planh1843
threnode1858
myrology1892
sorrow song1903
lamento1944
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [noun] > lament, elegy, or dirge
threne?a1475
elegy?1521
deploration1537
coronach1559
dirge1568
requiem1578
monodia1594
threnos1601
threnody1634
monody1645
lament1698
caoine1707
whillaloo1790
keen1830
tangi1836
threnode1858
commos1879
?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. Cv I tell myne elegy.
1594 M. Drayton Ideas Mirrour i. sig. B My liues complaint in doleful Elegies.
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar i. ix. 140 The Church's song is most of it Elegy.
1680 A. Sall Let. 26 Oct. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) V. 221 How great an admirer his Grace was of your honourable mothers vertues you may see by the elegy he made on her death.
1751 T. Gray Elegy xxi. 9 Their name, their years..The place of fame and elegy supply.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xvii. 174 Which song do you chuse, the Dying Swan, or the Elegy on the death of a mad dog?
1839 C. A. Murray Trav. N. Amer. II. vii. 141 I began to think, if I were to be drowned there, what would be my elegy.
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxv. 12 Death's dark elegy.
1947 Life 19 May 91/2 An elegy on his cousin whose ship was torpedoed in the North Atlantic.
1994 J. Ramazani Poetry of Mourning vi. 241 Lowell elegized numerous poets..but his elegy for Berryman portrays that poet as his nearest colleague.
b. Music. A piece of instrumental music created as a lament or having a melancholic or mournful style.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > [noun] > other types of piece
tinternel1573
aubade1678
nome1705
accompaniment1728
potboiler1783
raga1789
elegy1808
improvisation1824
pièce d'occasion1830
morceau de salon1854
tum-tum1859
murky1876
test-piece1876
invention1880
monodia1880
serenata1883
monody1887
dumka1895
incidental number1904
a cappella1905
folk-tune1907
realization1911
nosebleeder1921
show tune1927
sicilienne1927
estampie1937
ballad1944
Siciliana1947
hard rocker1957
rabble-rouser1958
display1959
mobile1961
soundscape1968
grower1973
lounge1978
1808 Monthly Mag. Jan. 579/1 This elegy..is given in the form of a piano-forte sonata.
1850 Musical World 13 Apr. 228/2 The sonata in two movements, in F sharp minor, by Dussek, the Elegy on the Death of Prince Ferdinand of Prussia.
1958 V. Loggins Where Word Ends 236 He composed a number of smaller works, among which was the popular elegy for piano, ‘Morte!’.
2002 W. Mellers Celestial Music xx. 179 Elgar's last two major orchestral works turn into elegies. Falstaff is a dazzling symphonic poem.
c. A piece of writing, drama, art, etc., imbued with a sense of mourning or melancholy affection for something. Chiefly with for, to.
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1937 Washington Post 29 Aug. b8/3 The book is an elegy for Europe, a requiem for a civilization.
1965 Guardian 28 Sept. 9 The play is an elegy to the American male.
1977 N.Y. Mag. 19 Dec. 127/2 The Lanx of Northumberland..is an elegy for the fading beauties of pagan orthodoxy.
1989 W. Taubman & J. Taubman Moscow Spring (1990) 227 The final sequence..was an elegy for the entire generation of creative intellectuals forced into emigration.
2007 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 8 Mar. (Arts section) 20 In essence, the film is an elegy—about faltering careers, damaged marriages and the brutality of chance.
2. Prosody.
a. Elegiac metre. See elegiac adj. 2. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > types of poem according to form > [noun] > poem in elegiac metre
elegy?1553
elegiac1778
?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) 801 in Shorter Poems (2003) 56 And sum of thaym ad Lyram playit and sang So plesand vers quhill all the rochys rang, Metyr Saphik and also Elygee.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xxiv. 39 Long lamentation in Elegie.
b. An elegiac couplet Obsolete. rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > stanza > couplet > elegiac couplet
elegiac distich1665
elegiac couplet1790
elegy1794
1794 T. Taylor tr. Pausanias Descr. Greece II. 369 An elegy on one of these bases..signifies that the statue..was that of Philopœmen.
3. In Greek and Latin poetry: a poem written in elegiac metre (see elegiac adj. 2); (hence) a poem in another language based on or influenced by this. Also: such poems as a genre.See also love elegy n. at love n.1 Compounds 1.In Greek and Latin literature elegiac metre was used for poetry expressing personal sentiments on a range of subjects, including epigrams, laments, sympotic poetry, and (in Rome) love poetry. Poets noted for their use of elegiac metre include the Greek poets Mimnermus, Callinus, Theognis, and Archilochus; and the Latin poets Catullus, Propertius, Ovid, and Martial. In English literature the term elegy describes poetry of various types (e.g. see quots. 1755, a1834, and 1859), but since the 18th cent. it has been particularly used to refer to reflective poetry written in elegiac quatrains (elegiac quatrain n. at elegiac adj. and n. Compounds), as typified by Thomas Gray's An Elegy, wrote in a Country Church-yard (1751).
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > other types of poem > [noun] > sad poem
elegy1559
melancholy1596
epode1646
1559 W. Bavand tr. J. Ferrarius Common Weale v. f. 93v Aurelius Propertius in a wittie Elegie [L. Elegia] complaineth for the death of one Petus.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries xv. f. cci Thus did he [sc. Clemente Marotte] translate certen thinges couertly, out of Tibullus, Propertius, and Ouide into hys owne elegies [L. ad suum institutum].
1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall x. sig. E.ivv So Varie makes his Elegies [L. epos], of quicke and lyuely myght, And Uirgile, well in rurall ryme, His gamesome Muse can dight.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 350 There is a man..hangs..Elegies on brambles..defying the name of Rosalinde. View more context for this quotation
1680 J. Dryden in J. Dryden et al. tr. Ovid Epist. Pref. sig. A3v The Lasciviousness of his [sc. Ovid's] Elegies.
1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 330 A subject affording many poetical Turns..in a Heroic Elegy.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Elegy, a short poem without points or turns.
a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. & Lett. (1768) I. 17 They gave the name of elegy to their pleasantries as well as lamentations.
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Specimens of Table Talk (1835) II. 268 Elegy..may treat of any subject, but..of no subject for itself..always and exclusively with reference to the poet.
1859 C. Kingsley Burns in Misc. I. 379 The poet descends from the..dramatic domain of song, into the subjective and reflective one of elegy.
1914 K. P. Harrington Rom. Elegiac Poets 15 Like most other forms of Roman literature, elegy is deeply indebted to Greece for both its form and its content.
1935 Mod. Philol. 32 301 The elegy of the latter half of the eighteenth century, restricted almost to one meter and yet exhibiting a range of theme unprecedented in the history of the type, was the creation of three poets—James Hammond, William Shenstone, and Thomas Gray.
1973 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 94 8 The most substantial model seems to be an elegy of Theognis.
2002 R. Flannagan John Milton 15 Milton wrote Latin elegies in the style of Ovid.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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