Both Uses
lament
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Angela's Ashes
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- If she wakes up and finds him dead in the bed beside her there will be no end to the lamentations and she'll blame me on top of it.†
Chpt 10lamentations = passionate expressions of grief or sorrow
- He says that this seems to be a poem about England but it is a lament for the poet's native land, our own native land, Ireland.
Chpt 13 *lament = sad poem
Definitions:
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(lament) to express grief or regret
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(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.