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"Man Was Made to Mourn: A Dirge" is a dirge of eleven stanzas by the Scots poet Robert Burns, first published in 1784 and included in the first edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect in 1786. The poem is one of Burns's many early works that criticize class inequalities.
A dirge (Latin: dirige, nenia [1]) is a somber song or lament expressing mourning or grief, such as may be appropriate for performance at a funeral. Often taking the form of a brief hymn, dirges are typically shorter and less meditative than elegies. [2] Dirges are often slow and bear the character of funeral marches.
"A Dirge" is a poetic dirge composed by Percy Bysshe Shelley. [1] It was published posthumously in 1824 by his wife, Mary Shelley , in the collection Posthumous Poems . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The text has been set to music by Frank Bridge , Charles Ives , Ottorino Resphigi , Roy Ewing Agnew , and Benjamin Britten .
A planctus ("plaint") is a lament or dirge, a song or poem expressing grief or mourning.It became a popular literary form in the Middle Ages, when they were written in Latin and in the vernacular (e.g., the planh of the troubadours).
The poem is addressed to the 18th-century Punjabi poet Waris Shah, who wrote the most popular version of the Punjabi romance tragedy, Heer Ranjha. [4] It appeals to Waris Shah to arise from his grave, record the Punjab's tragedy and turn over a new page in Punjab's history.
Dirge; Death poem; Death wail; Elegy; Endecha – Galician lament, subgenre of the planto; Keening; Kinah (plural: kinnot) – Kinnot are traditional Hebrew poems recited on Tisha B'Av lamenting the destruction of the First and Second Temples and other historical catastrophes. (The term "kinah" also appears in the Bible, referring to lamentation).
The "Lyke-Wake Dirge" is a traditional English folk song and dirge listed as number 8194 in the Roud Folk Song Index. The song tells of the soul 's travel, and the hazards it faces, on its way from earth to purgatory , reminding the mourners to practise charity during lifetime.
Similar terms include "dirge", "coronach", "lament" and "elegy". The Epitaphios Threnos is the lamentation chanted in the Eastern Orthodox Church on Holy Saturday. John Dryden commemorated the death of Charles II of England in the long poem Threnodia Augustalis, and Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote a "Threnody" in memory of his son. [3]