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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 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Subtitled "Notes and a Wanderer's Phrasebook," the movie version is punctuated with title cards displaying foreign phrases ("Der Ausverkauf: seliout/clearance sale," "odjezd: departure") that often carry elegaic double meanings. The elegaic conventions of the poem will entail connecting the silent "deep self" to the self that speaks and reacts with the world . In a book about her called The Elegaic Modernist, Sohnya Sayres uses the phrase "moral readiness" (83) in relation to Sontag. |
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