elegy

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Some of her songs are kiss-offs; some offer regrets; some are elegies; some are takedowns.

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Yet it plays like an elegy, a film about endings, mortality and what we leave behind.

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He recited a shepherd’s elegy: He started with 45 sheep; 30 remain.

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Last year, the literary scholar Wendy Roberts announced the discovery of what she says is the earliest known full-length Wheatley elegy, from 1767.

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In one memorable passage at the end of the first act, the Dreamer’s elegy is accompanied by the slow calligraphy of a solo viola.

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