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An 'elegy' is a formal, sustained, and meditative lyric poem lamenting the death of a particular person (e.g., Milton's 'Lycidas', Shelley's 'Adonais', Tennyson's 'In…

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An 'elegy' is a formal, sustained, and meditative lyric poem lamenting the death of a particular person (e.g., Milton's 'Lycidas', Shelley's 'Adonais', Tennyson's 'In Memoriam').

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