Talk:Lament

Odyssey
I can't think of a lament in the Odyssey. Is there one? Several in the Iliad, I know. And rew D alby 19:06, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
 * In Book 8, where Odysseus is in Antinuous' castle and the blind bard, Demodocus, is singing Odysseus' story and of the Trojan war. The tale is captivating but also sad, causing Odysseus to cry. That would probably be the most evident lament in The Odyssey. --GParan (talk) 19:31, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

I'd say that the whole freakin thing is a lament, I mean look at it: his life sucks. That seems pretty lamentable to me. Not to mention, isn't Odysseus the speaker?--Agreatguy6 21:19, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, two possible answers. A "lament" (as a literary genre) is a poem composed and performed to mourn someone who has just died; that's how I understand it, anyway, and that's why I said there are some laments incorporated in the Iliad (for example, Andromache's lament for Hector) but none in the Odyssey.
 * But the article is just a stub as yet; whoever develops it may have a different view of what laments can be, so I'll leave it as it is. Thanks! And rew D alby  20:26, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Popular laments in history
There ought to be a section including popular laments, in English but also sampling other cultures which used laments (if any). I find encyclopedic value in this, as I'm told by English scholars that the English language is one of the very few that actually attempt to rhyme in song and lyric. Laments are, in my opinion, the epitome of rhyme and I don't suspect many other cultures created them.

Example: ''Here I sit, broken hearted. Tried to shit, but only farted.''

This one is wildly popular across all English speaking cultures, and due to its use of vulgarity has over a dozen derivatives.

This article may also be linked with There once was a man from Nantucket, and the article on limericks. Perhaps this particular lament above should also earn its own article Here I sit, broken hearted.

Discuss? ~ Agvulpine (talk) 05:59, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Absolutely not. In order to justify the addition of such a section, a clearly written, coherent fact-referencing written outline describing its merit in detail would have had to have been submitted to Wikipedia. The paragraph fragment above that was presented to Wiki does not fulfill the necessary criteria. Also, notwithstanding, is the fact that "'x' subject in popular culture" is meta and does not, in any way, add to the encyclopaedic value of the entry.

As for the request's validity, I will make note of the following: Who are these mysterious "English Scholars" and what institution(s) do they belong to? What does "I am going to sample other cultures" mean - is that the writer's vague personal slang for "scientific method"? A limerick must be 5 lines, or it is not a limerick. Opinion is not fact. Suspicion is not fact, either. Lamentations, by nature do not contain humor, or vulgarities.

Lines 2 and 5 ("...sampling other cultures which used laments (if any).", "...and I don't suspect many other cultures created them.") are ambiguous statements in that I cannot tell if he is referring to the Lament in its contemporary sense, or its use in the supremacist culture known as "Popular".

In referring to the contemporary, there is obvious evidence of Lamentation in cultures other than English: The Vedas of India, The Talmud of the Semitic peoples, and even in the Drum music of of the American Aboriginal peoples.

The comment made about English being elite in its use of rhyme is false and supremacist. Oxford dictionary describes rhyme as:

noun 1 correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when used in poetry. 2 a short poem with rhyming lines. 3 rhyming poetry or verse. 4 a word with the same sound as another.

verb 1 (of a word, syllable, or line) have or end with a sound that corresponds to another. 2 (rhyme with) put (a word) together with (another word with a corresponding sound). 3 literary compose verse or poetry.

Therefore a matching suffix is not the only property of a rhyme. The best factual examples of a contemporary non-English rhyme in music would be the song "Funiculì, Funiculà" as written by Italian journalist Peppino Turco and set to music by Italian composer Luigi Denza in 1880, Zydeco music as made popular by the French-Speaking Creole of the United States ("Les Haricots Sont Pas Salés") and not to forget the magnitude of Gaelic and Celtic folklore (which employs quite a variety of developed poetic styles called: Ae freslighe, Deibhidhe, Rannaicheacht Mhor) - to name only but a few.

This request for a popular culture section is clearly a fail.

Nuuswam Ceijobweed (talk) 17:46, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

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