Both Uses of
lament
in
Cold Sassy Tree
- Two months before, when Arthur's sixteen-year-old sweetheart died of galloping consumption, the Cold Sassy Weekly had called her passing "the saddest and yet most beautiful death in memory, lamented in verse by her brother James, wellknown invalid poet of Maysville, Georgia.†
lamented = expressed grief or regret
- "I have bought the mansion of a love, but not possess'd it" was his lament.
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Definitions:
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(1)
(lament) to express grief or regret
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Although lament typically refers to a feeling or simple vocal expression, it can refer to a vocal expression as complex as a sad song or poem. It can even refer to sad, but non-vocal music -- as when Tennessee Williams references background music in A Streetcar Named Desire.