Since then, the term elegy usually refers to a meditative poem of lamentation with no set metrical form.
Major among his works was Hallaig, a meditative poem on the desolation associated with the Highland Clearances, named after the place of his early childhood.
At the same time as being engaged in his most violent polemics, Macedonski produced meditative and serene poems, which were later judged to be among his best.
I have space to consider only briefly Ashbery's triumph in lyric and shorter meditative poems.
W. H. Auden's New Year Letter is an example of a long-form meditative poem.
So many lines are delivered as if they were meditative poems.
"Locksley Hall" and "the Two Voices" are meditative poems, which were slowly written to be slowly read.
Lines are delivered like meditative poems, and James Houghton's direction is somnambulistic.
Lee followed that up the next year with a long meditative poem, Civil Elegies.
The book is a collection of lyric, narrative, comic, meditative and erotic poems.