Elegy

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 * Elegy**

__Definition__: (noun) A poem or song composed to lament the dead.

Thomas Gray mourns humanity in general in his elegy, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", while Walt Whitman mourns the death of a single person (Abraham Lincoln) in his work "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"

Walt Whitman, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" : http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2292.html Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churhyard" : http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/882.html