"elegy" is a correct and usable word in written English.
An elegy is a poem or piece of music composed to express mourning for someone who has died, so you can use the word "elegy" when talking about a period of mourning or the poem itself. For example: "The family read an elegy at the funeral to honor their beloved relative."
But it's also worth pointing out that on the rare occasions poetry does triumph in mainstream literary awards such as the Costa, the judges usually go for some kind of elegy.
These sequences also serve as a showcase for the film's strong cinematography, which captures the mountains, forests, and rivers around the camps as if composing an elegy.
A Scattering, though, is not merely a solemn elegy.
On the other, the narrator admits that the subject of his elegy is "thankfully confused in law" with her husband-to-be.
On the one hand, it's easy to understand the poem as an elegy for a loved person who has been married out of existence.
Edge: Push Oakland's En Vogue had a string of irresistibly catchy hits in the early 90s, but no one of them is bigger than 1996's double-platinum smash Tha Crossroads, the Eazy-E elegy that vaulted Cleveland's Bone Thugs-N-Harmony to No 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
As elegy for them, a scratchy recording suddenly blossomed into perfect mimicry of the woodlark's song.
His elegy for a fellow poet, Mick Imlah, shows a directness and clarity that is not always felt in his allusive poetry.
That prompted a warning from the president of Vietnam, Truong Tan Sang, that "tensions over water resources are not only threatening economic growth in many countries, but also presenting a source of conflict".In this section Power grab River elegy What's Strine for "Asian century"?
Parliament is even challenging the authority of the mighty presidency.In this section Power grab River elegy What's Strine for "Asian century"?
River elegy Going underground Shuffled, not stirred Toil and trouble Unforgiving history ReprintsYet the arrest of the 11 has fed growing concerns.
