EN 1006 Lecture Notes - Lycidas, Dulce Et Decorum Est, Elegy
17 Apr 2013
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Exploration of the psychological complexities typical of the changing scientific and urban present. Anxieties about human nature once religion has been replaced by science. War has a state of mind and an actual experience. A formal lyric poem that laments death of a friend, loved one, or public figure, or reflects seriously on a solemn subject. Since milton"s elegy lycidas, the term has usually denoted a lament. Adjective elegiac refers to mournful mood of poems. The pastoral elegy: usually begins with expression of grief: usually features funeral procession, a description of sympathetic mourning throughout nature, and musings about the unkindness of death, ex. The english graveyard school of poets: wrote reflections on death and immortality: express sorrow and pain of bereavement, evoke the horror of death"s physical manifestations, and suggest the impermanent nature of human life, ex. Thomas gray"s an elegy written in a country church yard (published in 1751)
