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Poetry Packet - 9th - Henry County Schools

7 The elegy is a highly formal verse focusing on death or any other solemn subject. Most noted elegies are Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” and Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.” Milton’s “Lycidas” is an example of a pastoral elegy. Most Poetry Lyric Most poetry that we experience is some form or combination of lyric poetry, resulting in ...