#elegy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #elegy, aggregated by home.social.
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Watched "Train Dreams" last night. 2023, director Clint Bentley. Based on the novella by Denis Johnson.
I had avoided watching this film because I knew it would require my full emotional attention, and I wasn't sure I could give it that attention.
Do not miss this film.
This film is a poem. Let it speak to you.
A film that shows a life lived with few words.
(The life lived had few words. The film showing it has few words.)
A film about loss and grief, among other things. The deepest loss, the deepest grief. Also about work, racism, integrity, friendship, all those things, each quietly allowed to show itself.
A long, quiet, sad, life-affirming poem. An elegy.
#TrainDreams #ClintBentley #film #movies #loss #grief #elegy
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OTD (276 years ago): Gray completed the Elegy at Stoke Poges and sent it to Horace Walpole who circulated it in MS among his friends and acquaintances.
Find out more in the #ThomasGrayArchive:
https://www.thomasgray.org/resources/findaid/poems/work/elcc -
Poet, the flowers are open
even when we are dead…—Iain Crichton Smith, “At the Funeral of Robert Garioch”
published in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS (Carcanet, 2021)Robert Garioch (1909–81), one of the greatest figures in 20th-century Scottish poetry, died #OTD, 26 April
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800170940/deer-on-the-high-hills/
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A Sunday elegy for my earbud munched by a voracious fluff.
Ah, brave earbud, lost too soon,
Silenced mid-chorus, no warning.
You played sweet tunes - now you’re gone,
Digested with pride at dawning.
No grave for you, no stone, no weep -
Just a squeaky toy and a clean bill of health…
Though I still hear your final beep -
Rest in pieces, lost to the fluff.
The culprit in the image below. All rights reserved.
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‘Tichborne’s Elegy’ by Chidiock Tichborne
#poem #poetry #english #literature #elegy
https://www.deadpoetsdaily.com/p/chidiock-tichborne-poem-tichbornes-elegy
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Happy to report the addition of the 1843 edition of _Elegia di Tommaso Gray_ to the #ThomasGrayArchive digital library. The volume contains 12 Italian, 5 Latin, 1 Hebrew, 6 French, and 4 German #Elegy translations:
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Sad to hear of the passing of Tasmanian political cartoonist Jon Kudelka https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/09/jon-kudelka-dies-aged-53-death-cartoonist Jon Kudelka had a lively interest in copyright law - both in terms of the defence for parody and satire, and the need to stop political misappropriation of his own work under economic rights and moral rights https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/hobart-drive/intellectual-internet-cartoon/8957682 #cartoon #parody #satire #elegy #copyright
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"Elegia Pacis"
Inventor of the Forge, I swear
The Day you forced a breath of air
Across red coals is cursed for all.
For Axe has yielded to the Maul,
And Farmer to the armored Knight.
The Shield and Sword are shining bright
While Rake and Plow are left to rust…
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“With stillness that is almost Paradise.
Darkness more clear than noonday holdeth her,
Silence more musical than any song;”
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#TTRPG #CharacterCreationChallenge2026 #Elegy
New editions always add new complications in terms of game design. Some steps forward, some steps back. It's character creation time again for *Elegy*.
https://grimtokens.garden/Articles/Character+Creation+Challenge/2026/11+-+Elegy
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I just heard that an old friend and colleague with whom I’d lost touch has died. There are lots of things to be said by people closer to them than I had become. But this person was kind, and classy, and creative. And by being all of that, they made the world, and so many other people’s lives, far better. If you know anyone like that, tell them so.
#inmemory #inmemoriam #absentfriends #tribute #tellthem #eulogy #elegy #sorrow #passing
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Delighted to announce the Thomas Gray Archive Autumn 2025 update. Read all about our recent work at the #ThomasGrayArchive: www.thomasgray.org/about/histor... #Elegy #translation #c18th #c19th #poetry #digitalhumanities #ThomasGray
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Delighted to announce the Thomas Gray Archive Autumn 2025 update. Read all about our recent work at the #ThomasGrayArchive:
https://www.thomasgray.org/about/history.shtml#2025
#Elegy #translation #c18th #c19th #poetry #digitalhumanities #ThomasGray
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Excellent paper by Paris Weber to conclude a fabulous #NASSR2025 on Thomas Gray's representation of nature as integral to the perception of time's flow and human memory in his #EtonOde and #Elegy, drawing a connection from Burnet to Hardy.
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'[Lehrer] was indifferent to money – he had enough for his needs, and no interest in acquiring more – so he put a legal instrument on his website allowing anyone to do anything they liked with his work, without paying him royalties. This is in amazing contrast with most high-profile performers, who have international legal teams to guard their intellectual property.' https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jul/29/wit-of-tom-lehrer-by-those-who-knew-him #copyright #music #elegy
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Today we bury
the last wordsmith
in captivity
who wrote
in an archaic format
formerly known as poetryWe perform this somber #elegy
in the shadows of anonymity
for as you all know
freestyle writing
(in fact freestyle anything)
was banned long ago
by those beasts now in control
who fear the power of creativity
more than terrorists with gunsSo truth me told
(another dangerous commodity)
this burial ceremony
is really a requiem for us
trapped in a stagnant society
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Update on the "#Elegy in translation"-project phase II (1806-1850): 55 early #c19 #translations in 12 #languages (Armenian, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovene, Spanish, and Welsh):
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Star Soul Of Planet Earth
Elegy for David Bowie 1947-2016
While trudging lost in meaningless waste land
I see blind Star Soul on hill of cracked skulls
who weaves wings so we can pretend to fly
so return to Heaven and ask me why.https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2016/01/star-soul-of-planet-earth.html
#Poetry #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #MetaRomanticism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism #Elegy #DavidBowie
