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 Translation for 'elegy' from English to Slovak
NOUN   an elegy | elegies
SYNO elegy | lament
hudbalit.
elégia {f}
elegy
hudbalit.
žalospev {m}
elegy
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Translation for 'elegy' from English to Slovak

elegy
elégia {f}hudbalit.

žalospev {m}hudbalit.
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Usage Examples English
  • He was the author in 1854 of an elegy in which he humorously lamented the extinction of John Doe and Richard Roe from the pleadings in ejectment.
  • The pastoral elegy is a subgenre that uses pastoral elements to lament a death or loss.
  • Llywelyn is particularly noted for his elegy to his dead mistress, "Marwnad Lleucu Llwyd" (Elegy for Lleucu Llwyd).
  • A famous example of elegy is Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (1750).
  • River Cam is referred to as "Camus, reverend Sire" in line 103 of John Milton's pastoral elegy "Lycidas". Edward King, in whose memory the elegy was composed, was a fellow student at Cambridge.

  • Ovid's "Amores" are firmly set in the genre of love elegy.
  • Schuyler was responsible for writing Frank O'Hara's elegy, "Buried at Springs".
  • The "elegy" was originally a classical form with few English examples.
  • Elegy songs composed by Me Khway are the prototype of today's well-known elegy, Discovery of Sonnathar Myaing (စုံနံ့သာမြိုင်ရှာပုံတော်).
  • in the wake of He was the first ever poet of Sindh who properly laid down the Elegy, in Sindhi language.and in elegy his first student was Mirza Murad Ali Baigh.

  • Modibbo Raji's elegy "Woyrude Modibbo Raji", also referred to as "Fayaa Fukarabe", was composed by his student Muhammad Tanu Mo'Ililal.
  • The poem consists of 3 prefatory stanzas, 33 stanzas of elegy, and 3 describing the grief of Astrophel's fellow shepherds, in sixains rhyming ababcc.
  • is a genre of Arabic poetry corresponding to elegy or lament.
  • She is Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University with specialities in Canadian literature, women’s literature, and the elegy.
  • "Am Grabe" is a revised "a cappella" setting of the elegy "Vor Arneths Grab", WAB 53. The elegy was performed on the funeral of Josephine Hafferl on 11 February 1861.

  • Holland's first published work was a Latin elegy on John Harington, 2nd Baron Harington of Exton, who had died on 27 February 1614.
  • Created for the National Ballet of Tajikistan as the company's first contemporary piece, "Symphony of Elegy" (2012, music: Alexander (Ali) Rahbari) is a metaphorical contemporary ballet based on the roots and rituals of lamentation and elegy in the Iranian culture.
  • Many poems based on "Eli Tsiyon ve-Areha" have been composed, including an elegy on the death of Princess Charlotte by Hyman Hurwitz (translated into English by Samuel Taylor Coleridge), an elegy on the death of Theodor Herzl by [...] , a "kinnah" for the Holocaust by [...] , and various polemic and comedic poems.
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