Elegy
Elegy is one of the genres of the lyric meditative, melancholic, sometimes mournful content. ▪ Lyrical poem of thoughtful, sad nature. In ancient poetry - a poem of any content, written in two forms of a certain form. ▪ A vocal or instrumental piece of thoughtful, sad nature. ▪ Sadness, melancholy. The name "elegy" then pointed out only to the fact that this poem was written by an elegiac two-axis, in which the first line is a hexameter, and the other is a pentameter. The development of elegy in ancient literature is associated with the names of the Hellenes of Tirtea, Callimaha, the Romans Tibulla, Ovid.