Can a Person Be Elegiac?
Sometimes Elegiac Specifically Refers to Something or Someone That's Gone: a Person Who's Died, or a Time in the Past, Especially If You Feel a Sense of...
Sometimes elegiac specifically refers to something or someone that's gone: a person who's died, or a time in the past, especially if you feel a sense of longing for it. You can speak in an elegiac way, or sing an elegiac tune. The word comes from the Greek elegos, "poem or song of lament."
What does it mean to be elegiac?
1a : of, relating to, or consisting of two dactylic hexameter lines the second of which lacks the arsis in the third and sixth feet. b(1) : written in or consisting of elegiac couplets. (2) : noted for having written poetry in such couplets.
How do you use elegiac in a sentence?
- The elegiac poem brought everyone to tears during the funeral.
- When Amy looked at the elegiac greeting card, she realized how much Greg missed her.
- The military band played a stirring but elegiac tribute during the general's burial ceremony.
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