Elegy

Who said "Grief and love are joined, you don't get one without the other"

• Nelson Mandela

• Nelson Piquet

• Jandy Nelson

• Nelson Sullivan

The tone of 1st and 2nd stanza of Funeral Blues.

• Direct and Forceful

• Nostalgic and Isolation

• Hysterical Grief

• None of the above

"Silence the pianos and with _______ drum"

Theme and Setting of

Funeral Blues

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,

Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,

Silence the pianos and with muffled drum

Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let airplanes circle moaning overhead

Scribbling on the sky the message “He is Dead”.

Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,

Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

• Death, Sorrow, Sadness Funeral

• Death, Grief, Isolation Funeral

A lyric of mourning, or an utterance of personal bereavement and sorrow.

• Drige

• Ballad

• Elegy

• Sonnet

An elegy may be based on either the transience of life of a person or the attractiveness and magnificence of somebody close to the speaker’s heart.

• True

• False

The language and structure of an elegy is informal and ceremonial.

• True

• False

An elegy is a poem which expresses gloomy thoughts of a person. It is commonly written in praise of the deceased and has an air of sorrow around it.

• True

• False

An elegy is a kind of a lyric which centers on expression of sentiments, beliefs or opinions.

• True

• False

5. “Funeral Blues” was written by ______ and published in _____.

Format of answer: (name of author) and (year)