Elegy

/ˈɛlɪd‍ʒi/

/ˈɛɫəˌdʒi/

Elegy

a song or poem expressing sadness, especially in the memory of a dead person or a bitter event in the past

synonyms : lament

Examples

1. So Elegy today provides around 20 percent of our power generation.

2. He plays elegies for a time before corona, a time before the government's disdain for its own policies threatened its citizens' lives.

3. It's not so much elegy as wonder at the state of mourning, a transsubstantiated bereftness.

4. So we have in the pastoral elegy a generic form that's highly predictable.