Sweetest Songs That Tell of the Saddest Thought (Arnold’S Personal Elegies)

Exploring Arnold's Personal Elegies

by Vivek Arora*,

- Published in Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education, E-ISSN: 2230-7540

Volume 3, Issue No. 6, Apr 2012, Pages 0 - 0 (0)

Published by: Ignited Minds Journals


ABSTRACT

Poetry, an interpretation of life throughimagination and feeling is broadly of two kinds; personal and impersonal, thepersonal is further divided and one of his most important divisions is theelegy.  Elegy is a “mournful,melancholic, or plaintive poem especially a funeral song or a lament for thedeal”1  (Jess Stein)

KEYWORD

poetry, interpretation, life, imagination, feeling, personal, impersonal, elegy, mournful, melancholic