Tag Archives: elegies

Wanted: An Elegy to Mourn Covid Victims

By Robin Bates | Published: January 4, 2022

To mourn our 800,000+ covid dead, America needs a good poetic elegy.

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Mourning Lincoln, Mourning My Son

By Robin Bates | Published: April 30, 2015

Whitman’s mourning of Lincoln in “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” also captures what it feels like to lose a child.

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No Calendar Except for this Bountiful Day

By Robin Bates | Published: May 19, 2014

Derek Walcott’s elegy to his mother unexpectedly doubles as a Commencement poem.

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