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A lament or lamentation is a passionate expression of grief, often in music, poetry, or song form. The grief is most often born of regret , or mourning . Laments can also be expressed in a verbal manner in which participants lament about something that they regret or someone that they have lost, and they are usually accompanied by wailing ...
The song was written by Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, the 19th-century Nawab of Awadh, as a lament when he was exiled from his beloved Lucknow by the British Raj before the failed Rebellion of 1857. He uses the bidaai (bride's farewell) of a bride from her father's ( babul ) home as a metaphor for his own banishment from his beloved Lucknow to far away ...
The death wail is a keening, mourning lament, generally performed in ritual fashion soon after the death of a member of a family or tribe.Examples of death wails have been found in numerous societies, including among the Celts of Europe; and various indigenous peoples of Asia, the Americas, Africa, New Zealand and Australia.
500 Miles" (also known as "500 Miles Away from Home" or "Railroaders' Lament") is a song made popular in the United States and Europe during the 1960s folk revival. The simple repetitive lyrics offer a lament by a traveler who is far from home, out of money and too ashamed to return.
An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, and in English literature usually a lament for the dead. However, according to The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy, "for all of its pervasiveness ... the 'elegy' remains remarkably ill defined: sometimes used as a catch-all to denominate texts of a somber or pessimistic tone, sometimes as a marker for textual monumentalizing, and sometimes strictly as a ...
Titiksha or titikṣā (Sanskrit: तितिक्षा 'forbearance' [1]) is defined by the Uddhava Gita as the "patient endurance of suffering." [2] In Vedanta philosophy it is the bearing with indifference all opposites such as pleasure and pain, heat and cold, expectation of reward and punishment, accruement or gain and loss, vanity and envy, resentment and deprecation, fame and ...
"Lament", by King Crimson from Starless and Bible Black "Prince Rupert's Lament" by King Crimson on 1970 album Lizard "Lament", by Paul McCartney from Standing Stone
The fuller lament is sometimes found as the more Germanic oy vey ist mir. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The main purpose or effect of elongating it is often dramatic, something like a "cosmic ouch". [ 7 ] [ 10 ] An Oy is not merely an ordinary word, but rather expresses an entire world view, according to visual anthropologist Penny Wolin . [ 11 ]