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elegiac
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elegiac
1. resembling, characteristic of, relating to, or appropriate to an elegy
2. denoting or written in elegiac couplets or elegiac stanzas
3. an elegiac couplet or stanza


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The result is a beautiful volume of large-scale photos of the ocean (by Hiroshi Sugimoto and others), plants (by Thomas Struth and others), ice (by Mette Tronvoll among others), and land (by Per Bak Jensen and 4 others), that is nonetheless elegaic in tone.
The permanent condition of their lives is to be temporarily out of joint; like the girl in the elegaic and old-fashioned end-of-the-world piece "Graduation Afternoon", they often discover what they've lost only in the moment of losing it.
She is marvellously limpid, contrasting for example Dante's "viscously physical hell" with Vergil's "doubt-ridden elegaic ethos," and sometimes moving, noting that Vergil is "a guide whom he would cause us to love and then to lose.
 
 
 
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