The pastoral elegy poem is one where the poet both focuses on the idyllic countryside and the experience of loss and death. Originating in ancient Greece, this poetic form continues today.
The Pastoral Elegy
Exploring Pastoral Poetry
Pastoral poetry focuses on an idealized notion of the rural landscape. This tradition started with Hesiod and we can still find traces of it in the work of Wendell Berry and Dylan Thomas.
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