Verse and song of mourning, including the lament and the dirge. A form belongs here when its cited article describes it as an expression of grief, mourning or lamentation in poetry or song. It excludes praise poems and the longer elegies of particular traditions, which sit with their own traditions. The group sits within the Lyric and Short Poetic Forms subcategory of the genre roster and gathers the genres of this kind that the atlas already records, so that a reader can browse related genres together and compare how each one is defined.
Elegy and Lament
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Wikipedia: Lament
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A lament or lamentation is a passionate expression of grief, often in music, poetry, or song form.
Dirge - Wikipedia
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A dirge (Latin: dirige, nenia) is a somber song or lament expressing mourning or grief, such as may be appropriate for performance at a funeral.
Threnody - Wikipedia
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A threnody is a wailing ode, song, hymn or poem of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.
Pastoral Elegy (Wikipedia)
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Pastoral elegy, a subcategory of the elegy form of poetry, has its roots in Hellenistic Greek poetry of the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE.
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