D.C
The Elegy by definition is a "mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or lament for the dead." And this is what this poem is about. It's a man speaking at a funeral about a women that he has lost. He praised her and talked about her virtue and great a person she was. She was big into her faith when he said "The noblest freedom, not to choose against faith or honor's laws." This woman was brought up to be a good person so it was expected of her to be a good person.
The speaker wants this women back now that she's dead. He wants her back but also wants to be like her in how she lived her life. When he says "What I in her am grieved to want." He wants live his life like she lived her's. Strong in the faith and also a nice person. A person nice enough that other people praise them for being a nice person. He's mournful yet hopeful.
The Elegy by definition is a "mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or lament for the dead." And this is what this poem is about. It's a man speaking at a funeral about a women that he has lost. He praised her and talked about her virtue and great a person she was. She was big into her faith when he said "The noblest freedom, not to choose against faith or honor's laws." This woman was brought up to be a good person so it was expected of her to be a good person.
The speaker wants this women back now that she's dead. He wants her back but also wants to be like her in how she lived her life. When he says "What I in her am grieved to want." He wants live his life like she lived her's. Strong in the faith and also a nice person. A person nice enough that other people praise them for being a nice person. He's mournful yet hopeful.