A poem or song composed especially as a lament for a deceased person.
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林肯之死给诗人惠特曼带来了巨大的心灵震撼,并促使诗人创作出了《紫丁香》这样优秀的挽诗。
The death of Lincoln deeply touched great American poet, Walt Whitman, and inspired him to create his most superb elegy When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.
The play is frenetic, uproarious and foul-mouthed, a lament for an idealised, free and easy rural England, infused with legends of gods and giants, that has succumbed to invasive bureaucracy.