挽歌，挽诗专门为悼念某一死者所写的诗或歌。

A poem or song composed especially as a lament for a deceased person.

林肯之死给诗人惠特曼带来了巨大的心灵震撼，并促使诗人创作出了《紫丁香》这样优秀的挽诗。

The death of Lincoln deeply touched great American poet, Walt Whitman, and inspired him to create his most superb elegy When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.

整个剧本充斥着颠狂、骚动和粗话，如同对理想、随性张扬的英格兰乡村生活的挽诗，被注入诸神与巨人的神话，最终屈服于入侵的官僚。

The play is frenetic, uproarious and foul-mouthed, a lament for an idealised, free and easy rural England, infused with legends of gods and giants, that has succumbed to invasive bureaucracy.