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Grief Adonais
Shelley’s elegy for John Keats. [Br. Lit.: “Adonais” in Benét, 10]
changed to nightingale for murdering son; her song funereal. [Gk. Legend: NCE, 24] her tears of grief become amber. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 6] holy day of prayer for repose of departed souls. [Christianity: Brewer Dictionary, 1021] visual symbol of grieving. [Heraldry: Jobes, 128] (fl. 4th century B.C.) built Mausoleum to commemorate husband. [Gk. Hist.: Walsh Classical, 32] when he was slain, all things on earth wept. [Scand. Myth: Brewer Dictionary, 70] daughter; cried herself to death over disappearance of husband, Picus. [Rom. Myth.: Zimmerman, 49] grieving over the loss of her daughter Persephone, she withholds her gifts from the earth, thus bringing on winter. [Gk. Myth.: Hamilton Mythology, 49] forty-niner’s drowned daughter; “lost and gone forever.” [Am. Music: Leach, 236] symbol of mourning. [Flower Symbolism: Jobes, 402] symbol of grief. [Flower Symbolism: Jobes, 413] inconsolably weeps for slain son, Memnon. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 1065] Adams memorial by St.- Gaudens in Washington, D. C. [Am. Art: EB, VIII: 781] mourns the death of her children. [Gk. Drama: Benét, 450] beautiful youth, accidentally killed; from his blood sprang flower marked with letters Al, a lament. [Gk. Myth: Howe, 134] Tennyson’s tribute to his friend, A. H. Hallam. [Br. Lit.: Harvey, 808] a prayer said for a close relative. [Judaism: Jobes, II, 901] woeful dirge recited on Tishah b’Av. [Judaism: Wigoder, 342] clergyman saddened by fate of fellow blacks. [South African Lit.: Cry, the Beloved Country] gentlest apostle, dies from despair at Christ’s death. [Ger. Lit.: The Messiah] Milton’s elegy for his friend, Edward King (1637). [Br. Lit.: NCE, 1781]
symbol of grief. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 175] weeps unceasingly for her murdered children. [Gk. Myth.: Wheeler, 259] Whitman’s elegy commemorating Lincoln’s death. [Am. Lit.: Benét, 726] Ben Jonson’s short poem mourning the death of his first son. [Br. Lit.: Norton, 243] representation of sorrowing Virgin with dead Christ. [Art: Hall, 246] symbol of consolation. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 176; Kunz, 329] massacre of innocents fulfills prophecy that she will weep. [N.T.: Matthew 2:18; Jeremiah 31:15] symbol of death and mourning. [Chinese Art: Jobes, 357] seven days of grieving following close relative’s burial. [Judaism: Wigoder, 550] bird that cried “consolation” at Lord’s crucifixion. [Animal Symbolism: Brewer Dictionary, 1050] (9th of Av) Jewish day of lamentation for destruction of Temple. [Judaism: Wigoder, 51] Western wall where Jews lament the destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem. [Judaism: EB, X: 627] symbolizes grief at loss. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 178] Whitman poem mourns the death of Lincoln. [Am. Lit.: Benét, 1085] Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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