Elegy

Term 

Elegy - A sad and sorrowful poems, usually lamenting the death of someone.

Example

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd winds slowly over the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.














Siginificance


Elegy help to express feeling, mercy of death and laments of poet for their beloved one. People can easily express them by writing a poem