Elegy ♥

Definition: A mournful poem, composed in elegiac couplets, serious reflection or typically a lament for the dead.

Example:

On September the nineteenth 1586 in London Tower
When the bloom of his young life was decaying like a flower
Dying in the cool winds of the early Fall
In words his tragic life he did recall.

Chidioch Tichborne to something beautiful to gave life
In his farewell elegy to Agnes his wife
An elegy still read and popular today
True greatness can be slow for to meet decay.

Accused as being in a failed plot to murder Elizabeth England's Queen
His best days as a poet he had not seen
Hung drawn and quartered a brutal way to die
Such a death to justice surely gives the lie.

Executed in his twenty eight year even in those times that was young
But he did not remain as one unsung
His gift of life may have been snatched from him in his prime
But his life story and his elegy have withstood the test of time.

Chidioch Tichborne (1558-1586)

Significance: The importance of elegy is the poets can express their feelings when they have something really bad happen to them. Elegy makes them feel better when the poets bring all of their heart in that poem. The reader maybe upset about something, they can borrow the poem to make them feel better after read that poem. Elegy has a lot of feelings it in because they are from the bottom of the writer's heart.