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a poem that turns grief into something you'd actually want to read twice.
Greek rootsNamed for the mournful elegiac meter, not the sadness
Three stagesLament, then praise, then consolation — grief on rails
Gray's hitElegy in a Country Churchyard took eight years
Not just deathOriginally mourned anything lost, including love affairs
Auden's blowStop all the clocks elegized a man in a funeral