The word "dirge" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a slow, mournful song or poem that is sung or recited to express grief or lamentation for someone who has died. For example, "The funeral procession was accompanied by a dirge, played on a solitary cello."
And Mr McCain is no great communicator.With a month to go, Americans may hear a dirge of glum economic news nearly every day between now and the election.
So goes a verse in a whisky-soaked dirge of Georgia Institute of Technology.
The dirge is the latest attack on the New York Police Department (New York's finest promptly organised a rally against Mr Springsteen's lyrics).
Legs akimbo, they sing a funeral dirge to the Shia martyr Hussain.
I like to see a politician self-destruct as much as the next guy, so I rushed straight to YouTube to see the moment when the curtains came down.Perhaps the episode loses something in the replaying, but I must admit I couldn't hear the funeral dirge starting up as Mr Perry searched for that elusive third redundant government agency.
But instead of the romantic dirge, she found herself getting married to the jauntier strains of "Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen .The man in green tights is being subverted again.
He conjures up a New Orleans funeral, from the wailing dirge to the graveyard to the raucous march back to the wake, with all its sorrow and jubilation in his words, "the end of a perfect death .Every track offers marvels of piano virtuosity, in a whole spectrum of styles.
The work that made the greatest impression was the "Cart of Death", an elaborate float pulled by black buffaloes, with skeletons popping out of their tombs whenever the grim procession stopped to chant a dirge.
The latter deploy the full complement of pastoral poetic conventions, including the singing contest, the encomium (a panegyric to Elisa [Elizabeth I]), the hymn to Pan, and the dirge.
The man in charge of their career at Parlophone was George Martin, a classically trained musician who from the start put his stamp on the Beatles, first by suggesting the band hire a more polished drummer (they chose Starr) and then by rearranging their second recorded song (and first big British hit), "Please Please Me," changing it from a slow dirge into an up-tempo romp.
Although the composer claimed that he was not attempting to portray the poem's specific scenes literally, the symphony's structure reflects that of Auden's poem, having six parts: "The Prologue," "The Seven Ages," "The Seven Stages," "The Dirge," "The Masque," and "The Epilogue".
