•a form of lamentation, usually focused on the death of one person •a conventional elegiac pattern is to follow a cycle of sections, meant to emulate the phases of mourning, from shock to despair to resignation to reconciliation. Elegy •SHOCK – The Going, Your Last Drive, The Walk •DESPAIR – The Voice •RESIGNATION – Rain on a Grave, The Visitor •RECONCILIATION – I Found Her Out There, Lament
