On Machiavelli's account of Rome's excellence, the character of the people mattered a great deal: "where the matter [the people] is not corrupt, tumults and other scandals do not hurt; where it is corrupt, well-ordered laws do not help." (79) Or, speaking from the perspective of an ambitious man, "one has to seek glory in a corrupt city by modes other than in one that still lives politically." Even a good man like Manlius--a hero
elegized in the Discourses who served Rome while his countrymen were virtuous republicans--would have behaved ignominiously, in the manner of Sulla or Marius, had he been born into their debauched time instead.
In "Lycidas" and many later, nineteenth-century elegies, the elegiac speaker eventually discovers the "where" of the "lost"
elegized subject, such a retrieval enabling the speaker to claim the role of heir to his predecessor's poetic power and thus to assert the ongoing force of poetry itself as a strong, if perhaps ambivalent, response to historical change.
Beaumont is among the more
elegized of early modern dramatists.
As with his discussion about the Indians and blacks, Freyre's discourse about the Moor-Sephardi is often contradictory, moving between romantic elegies for a disappearing culture to praising the very modernization that "disappeared" the culture being
elegized.
As opposed to seeing Gabriel
elegized on a pedestal, readers see him imperfect and flawed.
Hirsch's near and dear ones--members of his family, especially his (two) fathers, and friends (including a football coach)--have been
elegized in poems such as "Omen," "Fast Break," and "Indian Summer" (Wild Gratitude); "Memorandums," "My Grandmother's Bed," "My Grandfather's Poems," and "Execution" (The Night Parade, 1989); "Lay Back the Darkness," "Wheeling My Father Through the Alzheimer's Ward," and "The Forgetfulness Chair" from "The Hades Sonnets" (Lay Back the Darkness); and "Special Orders" and "The Chardin Exhibition" (Special Orders).
Although it may seem more natural to compare Percival to his fellow schoolmates, the male characters in The Waves, his role in the novel emerges more sharply in the subtle comparisons Woolf draws between Percival and Rhoda, who also dies but is not
elegized, and Jinny, who exudes a similar charisma but whose power fades with her beauty.
Now commonly referred to as Shahid Jahan-Ara, he is
elegized with the well-known religious song (surud) from Bushehr "Mamad nabudi bibini" ("Muhammad, You Were Not Here to See") popularized by singer Ghulam Kuvaytipur after Iranian forces retook Khorramshahr.
NNA - MP Ziad Aswad, from the Bloc of Reform and Change, on Tuesday
elegized journalist Hamze Hajj Hassan as "the brave Muslim who lived in Christian lands to unveil the truth behind destroying and burning churches and holy Christian sites."
Curated by Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art's Steven Matijcio, "paperless" contemplated our conflicted relationship to this ubiquitous material, gathering art from fifteen international artists who have sought to reshape, recycle, torture, or dismember as they've mulled over paper's future or
elegized its demise.
At times, the passing of maritime or rural traditions may be
elegized or satirized by writers, but the iconography arising from those traditions is also questioned, contemplated, and taken seriously.