5. EXAMPLES OF ELEGY
• "Fugue of Death" - Paul Celan
•"O Captain! My Captain!" - Walt Whitman
•"To An Athlete Dying Young" - Alfred Edward
Housman
•"Friend," - Jean Valentine
•"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" -
Thomas Grey
6. •A traditional elegy has three basic parts
that come in order in the poem:
•1) Grief: an expression of sadness
•2) Admiration: praise for the recently
deceased
•3) Acceptance: coming to terms with loss