Elegy 14th post

Definition: Elegy a poem dealing with things long past, of loss, of death, and sad things

Example:

Here Captain! dear father!

This arm beneath your head;

It is some dream that on deck,

You've fallen cold and dead.

O Captain! My Captain!"

~ Walt Whitman~

Significance: Elegy usually use as a poem to praise the people who pass away, what glory they had made and to change they sadness atmosphere and people perspective about the death of that person.