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A City Lament is a poetic elegy for a lost or fallen city. This literary genre, from around 2000 BCE onwards, was particularly prevalent in the Mesopotamian region of the Ancient Near East . [ 1 ] The Bible's Book of Lamentations concerning Jerusalem around 586 BCE, contains some elements of a city lament.
A lament in the Book of Lamentations or in the Psalms, in particular in the Lament/Complaint Psalms of the Tanakh, may be looked at as "a cry of need in a context of crisis when Israel lacks the resources to fend for itself". [8] Another way of looking at it is all the more basic: laments simply being "appeals for divine help in distress". [9]
Đoàn Thị Điểm was born in 1705 at Giai Phạm village, Văn Giang district, Kinh Bắc local government (now Yên Mỹ District, Hưng Yên province). She is best known for her biography of the goddess Liễu Hạnh [1] and her version of Đặng Trần Côn's poem Lament of a soldier's wife from Hán into vernacular Nôm. [2]
James Macpherson (c. 1675 –1700) was a Scottish outlaw, famed for his lament before execution. He grew up a talented swordsman and fiddle player, then became leader of a gang of robbers. He was arrested in Keith and died in Banff. The lament was rewritten by Robert Burns as McPherson's Farewell.
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Lamentations combines elements of the kinah, a funeral dirge for the loss of the city, and the "communal lament" pleading for the restoration of its people. [6] It reflects the view, traceable to Sumerian literature of a thousand years earlier, that the destruction of the holy city was a punishment by God for the communal sin of its people. [ 7 ]
Similar words can be found in Sanskrit (कलम kalama, meaning "reed" and "pen" as well as a type of rice), Hebrew (kulmus, meaning quill) and Latin (calamus) as well as the ancient Greek Κάλαμος (Kalamos). The Arabic word قلم qalam (meaning "pen" or "reed pen") is likely to have been borrowed from one of these languages in antiquity.
Jean Elliot (b. 1727), aided in part by popular poetry selections, framed the tune in 1756 as a lament to the deaths of James IV, many of his nobles, and over 10,000 men – the titular "Flowers of the Forest" – at the Battle of Flodden Field in northern England in 1513, a significant event in the history of Scotland.