Gillian Clarke's poem, Lament, is an elegy, an expression of grief. 

It can be a sad, military tune played on a bugle. The poem uses the title as the start of a list of lamented people, events, creatures and other things hurt in the war. All the details in the poem came from reports in the media.

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