What are two forms of elegiac poetry?
The lamentation and the dirge.
What is elegiac poetry like?
It is somber and expresses grief.
What is the lamentation mostly associated with?
mourning
What have lamentations been often referred to as?
The sound of trauma.
What is the poet’s focus in lamentation?
Sound
What is the rhythm of lamentations known to sound like?
Weeping
What letters extend sound?
LSD
What letters muffle sound?
MBW
How are the dirge and lamentation alike?
they both are flexible in form.
What does “Ariel’s Dirge” begin with?
Full fathom five
What is very common in dirges?
Funeral Vocab
What is the main goal of elegiac poems?
To express grief.
