Elegy was originally used for a type of poetic metre (Elegiac metre), but is also used for a poem of mourning, from the Greek elegos, a reflection on the death of someone or on a sorrow generally - which is a form of lyric poetry. An elegy can also reflect on something which seems strange or mysterious to the author. In addition, an elegy (sometimes spelled elegíe) may be a type of musical work, usually in a sad and somber attitude. It is not to be confused with a eulogy.Some notable elegies include: · Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse · The Elegies of Propertius · Thomas Gray's [LINK: http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc] Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard · Edmund Spenser's Astrophel · John Milton's Lycidas · Percy Bysshe Shelley's Adonaïs · Evgeny Baratynsky's Autumn · William Cullen

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