Elegy
Poem of serious reflection, usually a lament for the dead / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Elegy (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Eulogy.
An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, and in English literature usually a lament for the dead. However, according to The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy, "for all of its pervasiveness ... the 'elegy' remains remarkably ill defined: sometimes used as a catch-all to denominate texts of a somber or pessimistic tone, sometimes as a marker for textual monumentalizing, and sometimes strictly as a sign of a lament for the dead".[1][2]