Abstract Is the elegy global? To wrestle with this impossibly large question, can we approach it intrinsically by searching within for traces of genre’s worldwide reach? A contemporary that serve as a portal to globality is Edward Hirsch’s book-length Gabriel (2014), lament poet’s son weaves global web elegies, citing more than dozen mourning poets from classical and Edo Japan, medieval, Renais...

The "Mour" is an elegiac dirge in Laki – an ancient language still spoken in regions as diverse as Lorestan, Hamadan, Ilam, and Kermanshah. Sung in an elegiac non-rhythmic tune and just in one distich in memory of a dead person, these wistful melodies have a rather long history. The purpose of this article, which is descriptive-analytical and library-based, is to explore the relationship betwee...

This article offers a short introduction to Czech pagan metal. I offer brief summary of the main trends within local scene and analyze how Paganism is discursively constructed in music lyrics three bands representing different metal sub-genres: Inferno, Silent Stream Godless Elegy, Žrec. seek answers for some important questions. How do approach Paganism? In what ways, if any, unique? Or simply...

abdul'azimal-rabi'i is a contemporary arab poet, nurtured in the literary tradition of najaf, iraq, who wrote many poems on the virtues of ahl al-bayt and how they were wronged. life and poetry of al-rabi’i is not much known to iranian researchers. this study therefore intends to focus on him using an analytical-descriptive methodology.  the findings show that al-rabi’i, neglecting th...