To me, elegy suggests that there is hope, and in some respects you've moved past the loss and are able to deal with it and to write about it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.
Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.
I think it's important to feel those losses because I never want to feel like that again.
I think after you write something and you're finished with it, there is a sense of loss. That this is a world I can't really re-enter the way that I could when I was working on it. The covers of the book close it to the writer.
I never think about losing. That's why it's so hard to accept a loss.
The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
Loss doesn't feel redeemable. But for me one consoling aspect is the recognition that, in this at least, none of us is different from anyone else: We all lose loved ones; we all face our own death.
You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.
When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.
The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance.