| It looks to the past as a way of dramatizing the birth pangs of a new social entity, or elegizing lost potential. |
| The right-hand pages meditate on the difficulty of elegizing a brother who had disappeared from Carson's life long before his death. |
| Horatio's farewell to Hamlet offers Cal a powerful way of elegizing his beloved Andre, and McNally a benediction that he can bestow on all the AIDS dead. |
| A number of tribal poets converted and became his companions, praising him in life and elegizing him after his death. |
