Word: elegiac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more accurate manuscripts than those available to the translators of the King James version. Thus his syntax and synonyms are often radically different from what is found in the King James, and he abandons many of its most hallowed images. Gone from Psalms 23, for example, is the elegiac "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me." A comparison with Ugaritic cognates, Dahood argues, proves that the Hebrew correctly demands a more prosy reading: "Even though I should walk in the midst of total darkness...
...minute documentary knit into a tragedy-the story of the Spanish people during the scarring years (1936-39) of the civil war. To make it, French Producer-Director Frédéric Rossif drew on English, French, Russian, German and U.S. newsreels, molding his material into an elegiac whole, a powerful work...
...POETRY AND POWER, edited by Erwin Glikes and Paul Schwaber. An anthology of poems - some elegiac, some angry -lamenting the death of John F. Kennedy...
...POETRY AND POWER, edited by Erwin G likes and Paul Schwaber. An anthology of poems-some elegiac, some angry-lamenting the death of John F. Kennedy. Certainly among the most valuable of the hundreds of volumes about the President...
Most of these poems are restrained when compared with Walt Whitman's effusive When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd. Nor are they elegiac in the usual sense. In poetry as elsewhere, the sea of faith has receded, and poets no longer have recourse to the traditional symbols of comfort and deliverance. The poems are for the most part stoical, terse, plainspoken. But all of them bespeak a grief as great as any poetry of the past...